Dodd to seek changes to Treasury relief package

[babylonsister]

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/dodd-to-seek-changes-to-treasury-relief-package-2008-09-21.html

Dodd to seek changes to Treasury relief package
By Kevin Bogardus
Posted: 09/21/08 05:48 PM


Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) said that the $700 billion bailout for Wall Street firms proposed by the U.S. Treasury Department needed to be modified and Democrats would most likely add new provisions to the package.

Speaking with reporters in the Russell Senate Office Building Sunday, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee said Capitol Hill aides had begun framing the relief package into legislative language Saturday night.

“The idea of coming up here and say ‘Give us $700 billion and we’ll see you later’ is unacceptable,” said Dodd. “I realize this was to put something on the table and it was not the last, best offer and we are responding to it in a constructive way.”

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Reporters asked Dodd to describe specifically what Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson said to lawmakers last Thursday that led to the sense of urgency on Capitol Hill this weekend. Dodd declined but compared his colleagues’ reactions to that of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

“If that doesn’t make the point, I don’t know want does. Because of the language used, it was a very sobering moment,” said Dodd.

[aquart]

1. My god, they still don't realize they were punked after 9/11.

[SmokingJacket]

2. Dodd seems to realize it.

I wonder about the others...

[azul]

3. Yea, here is for sunlight and accountability

and sober decision making processes without threats and extortions.

Hold that darned document up with tongs and a hammer and let the public see it in the light of day and decide.

We can not trust these liars in anything involving money or violence. They just rush bad legislation through congress, make the public complicit, and laugh all the way to the bank.

[greyghost]

4. Spot on!

We must do EVERYTHING we can to stop the madness.

Flood the Hill with phone calls.

Jam their e-mails.

Let them know we ain't buying their crap!

[bluesmail]

5. They were threatened?

:tinfoilhat:

[99th_Monkey]

7. NO!! That could never happen here in the good ol' US of A, now could it?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4046991&mesg_id=4046991

[tblue37]

6. Yeah--and his colleagues reaction to the 9/11 attacks was to

mindlessly give away the store.

[Piewhacket]

8. WHAT DID PAULSON TELL DODD?

Lets hear it.
Paulson..... ANSWER!