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Disgraced CEO Richard Fuld, who oversaw the demise of venerable Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc that helped tip the credit crunch into a full-blown crisis, will testify at a congressional hearing next week. Rep. Henry Waxman, the Democratic chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has called Fuld and former chief executives of insurer American International Group Inc to appear at hearings into the financial excesses that led to the collapse of the companies. "Lax oversight and reckless investments on Wall Street are causing massive disruption throughout our economy," Waxman said in a statement on...

This is a compilation of some recent House polls: *AL2, (R) Jay Love 56%, (D) Bobby Bright 39%, (date, Aug. 39) *NM1, (D) Martin Heinrich 51%, (R) Darren White 46% (date, 8/26) MN3, (R) Derek Paulsen 44%, (D) Ashwin Madia, 41% (date, 8/26) *FL21, (D) Raul Martinez, 48%, (R) Lincoln Diaz-Balart, 46% (date, 8/27) *PA10, (D) Chris Carney 49%, (R) Chris Hacket 45%, (date 8/26)

At Hearing, Official EIB Clown Attacks Official EIB ClimatologistJuly 22, 2008 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: The official climatologist of the EIB Network, Dr. Roy Spencer, a brilliant independent climatologist and scientist, former NASA, he's now at University of Alabama at Huntsville, testified before Senator Boxer's committee on climate change research, and they had the following exchange. SPENCER: In conclusion, I am predicting today that the theory that mankind is mostly responsible for global warming will slowly fade away in the coming years, as will the warming itself, and I trust you would agree, Madam Chair, that such a result deserves to...

Common delusions notwithstanding, the United States, I submit, is not a democracy—by which is meant a system in which the will of the people prevails. Rather it is a curious mechanism artfully designed to circumvent the will of the people while appearing to be democratic. Several mechanisms accomplish this. First, we have two identical parties which, when elected, do very much the same things. Thus the election determines not policy but only the division of spoils. Nothing really changes. The Democrats will never seriously reduce military spending, nor the Republicans, entitlements. Second, the two parties determine on which questions we...

What do Connecticut voters have in common with U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid? Ample reason to be frustrated with Sen. Christopher J. Dodd. During the last week of June, Sen. Reid publicly complained that presidential candidates were missing so many votes that Senate business was being impeded. The worst offender was Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who had missed 117 of 226 recorded floor votes as of mid-June. Among Democrats, Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware was the worst offender, missing 62 votes. Right after Sen. Biden on the dishonor roll was Sen. Dodd with 59 no-shows. If opinion surveys in...

Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics: 29 have been accused of spousal abuse 7 have been arrested for fraud 19 have been accused of writing bad checks 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses 3 have done time for assault 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit 14 have been arrested on drug related charges 8 have been arrested for shop lifting 21 are currently defendants in law suits 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year...