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    The advisers include Gene Sperling, who last year took in $887,727 from Goldman Sachs and $158,000 for speeches mostly to financial companies, including the firm run by accused Ponzi scheme mastermind R. Allen Stanford. Another top aide, Lee Sachs, reported more than $3 million in salary and partnership income from Mariner Investment Group, a New York hedge fund. Full Article at ABC News
    The advisers include Gene Sperling, who last year took in $887,727 from Goldman Sachs and $158,000 for speeches mostly to financial companies, including the firm run by accused Ponzi scheme mastermind R. Allen Stanford. Another top aide, Lee Sachs, reported more than $3 million in salary and partnership income from Mariner Investment Group, a New York hedge fund.
    SOURCE: ABC News 1 month ago
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The Note: Snowe's Support Helps With Moderates -- but Will Liberals Follow?
  1. A public health insurance plan option is essential to reform
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  2. Some of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's closest aides, none of whom faced Senate confirmation, earned millions of dollars a year working for Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc. and other Wall Street firms, according to financial disclosure forms
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  3. I have concerns about that, because that could be another way of opting in to have a public option all across the country
    Olympia Snowe – Olympia Snowe SOURCE: ABC News 1 month ago
  4. We are going to make sure they can't sink this effort at the last minute.
    SOURCE: ABC News 1 month ago
  5. The only question is how this gets mediated at the eleventh hour by President Obama.
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  6. I didn't do very much. But I had to do some of it, for my country.
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  7. The notion that anyone is now actually in control of this process is an illusion. But to the extent that anyone's hand is on the tiller, it is Reid's
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  8. Workers at 23 top investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers and stock and commodities exchanges can expect to earn even more than they did the peak year of 2007, according to an analysis of securities filings for the first half of 2009 and revenue estimates through year-end by The Wall Street Journa...
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  9. I believe if sanctions become necessary, we will have support from Russia
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  10. This 'jobs' campaign is nothing more than a blatant attempt to kill any new financial regulations. The Chamber simply wants to keep the status quo that got us into this recession; it's a level of dishonesty that would certainly make AHIP proud.
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