Topic: Judd Gregg

Judd Gregg

Judd Gregg is the senior Republican The job of Commerce Secretary had originally been intended for New Mexico governor Bill Richardson , a strong supporter of Obama's in the Democratic primary. Gregg withdrew his name from consideration for the position on February ...

Senator sees hope for Obama-led tax code reform

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After tackling the behemoths of healthcare and financial reform, a senator said on Wednesday he believed President Barack Obama might turn to reforming the byzantine and widely-hated U.S. tax code.Democratic Senator Ron Wyden, the author with Republican Judd Gregg ...

CFTC's Gensler goes down to wire for swaps reform

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As lawmakers bargained, fretted and sweated through talks to wrap up the U.S. financial reform bill on Thursday, there was a single regulator whose ubiquitous presence was a reminder of one of the toughest issues to resolve.Gary Gensler, head ...

Senators can't agree on OTC derivatives rules

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. senators charged with crafting rules to regulate the $450 trillion over-the-counter derivatives market have failed to reach an agreement, Democratic Senator Jack Reed said on Friday.Reed and Republican Senator Judd Gregg had been trying to write rules to ...
Senate passes jobs bill awarding tax breaks for businesses that hire the unemployed Senate Democrats delivered the first of several promised election-year jobs bills Wednesday, passing a measure blending highway funding eagerly sought by the states with tax breaks for companies that ...

GOP's Gregg sees progress on financial regulation

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans and Democrats in the Senate share common ground on financial regulation, but the White House's stance on how to protect consumers from banking abuses remains an obstacle to legislation, a top Republican senator said on Friday.Judd spoke a ...
EconomistMom writes (If We Can't Even Agree on the Commission... Only two of them (Blanche Lincoln and Judd Gregg) opposed the unfunded Medicare Part D. Only one of them (Olympia Snowe) opposed the 2003 tax cut, even though it was very clear ...
It looks like President Obama is going to create the bipartisan commission to cut the deficit that Kent Conrad and Judd Gregg have been pitching-except that now Judd Gregg is against it.. According to the original Conrad-Gregg plan, the commission would have ...

U.S. extends bailout fund, sees economic challenges

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Wednesday extended the government's $700 billion financial bailout fund to October next year, saying the economy still faced " "Geithner, in letters to congressional leaders, pledged to deploy no more than $550 billion from ...
Waiting for second half of stimulus to kick in, Obama weighs options for creating more jobsPresident Barack Obama is considering all options to create jobs, including another stimulus package, while trying to pull the economy out of a deep recession and deal ...
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