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• After bailout, Fredie Mac still can't get their act together

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  From Reuters:Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE - News; NYSE:FRE - News), the second largest provider of U.S. residential mortgage funding, on Friday posted a loss of $5 billion in the third quarter and predicted it would need more government support amid a "prolonged deterioration" in housing....Increases in the value of securities Freddie [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:49am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting

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  From NBC Chicago:President Obama didn't wait long after Tuesday's devastating elections to give critics another reason to question his leadership, but this time the subject matter was more grim than a pair of governorships...After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:46am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• The Associated Press: House Dems struggle for final votes on health care

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  From the AP: Amid intense lobbying by the Obama administration, House Democratic leaders struggled Friday for the final votes needed to pass sweeping health care legislation, working to ease concerns among Hispanic holdouts and abortion foes..."We're very close" to having enough votes to prevail, said Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:42am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox

• PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail

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  From the Committee On Ways & Means Republicans Ranking Member, Dave Camp:Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:40am EST
  by Jody L. Wilcox