NOBODY knows who took the bonus exclusion out of the bill?????

[Stinky The Clown]

I don't give a fat fuck what party these fucks belong to.

They're all liars.

"Ms. Snooooowe ........ 'Nooooo'" <----a refrain left over in my head from the Clenis impeachment vote

[LSparkle]

1. I love the fact it's called the "Snowe-Wyden" provision ... hahahaha

"I'm wishing ... for the one I love ... to find me ...
today ... "

[SlowDownFast]

2. Ayup. n/t

[notesdev]

3. Sure we know

it was Sen. Dodd - the same one that appears at the top of the AIG donor list. Dots are not very hard to connect here, especially when you throw in the honorable Senator's unusual mortgage arrangements.

[BuyingThyme]

14. He's not on the committee.

[JSK]

17. Not true

Dodd ADDED the amendment to stop bonuses. It was watered down (CHANGED) in committee, but he's getting the blame because it was his amendment. Convenient scapegoat for the Reich.

[notesdev]

32. Try the other way around

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_bs262?sec=topStories&pos=2&asset=TBD&ccode=TBD



Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.): Billed by Gawker.com as "the senator from AIG," Dodd inserted language into the stimulus package that allowed for the AIG bonuses, weakening an earlier provision by Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore) that limited bailout recipients' ability to dole out bonuses. His provision included this line: "There is an exception for contractually obligated bonuses agreed on before Feb. 11, 2009."

[Captain Hilts]

4. Phil Gramm is gone, so it must be someone else. We need to find out.

And keep the handsome prostitutes who give massages and chocolate on retainer for Snowe and Collins.

[rateyes]

5. I hate to say it, but according to a Senator at the hearing today,

one of the main culprits was Chris Dodd.

[Jane Austin]

8. Do you know which Senator said that?

Thanks.

[SoFlaJet]

11. there were no senators at today's hearing Jane

it was a House committee, and I watched the whole thing and it never came up. Nora is going batshit crazy and Chris too but no congressman asked about who took it out of the final bill.

[Jane Austin]

23. Thanks.

I should have noticed that. :)

Now I'm wondering why RatEyes said that.

[rateyes]

29. I'm sorry. I meant to say a Representative, not a Senator.

My bad. And, I can't remember which Rep. said it.

[SoFlaJet]

9. It should be easy enough to find out

somebody make a call to Senator Dodd's office and ask him to show up on Hardball today and ask him why it was done and under whose instruction. I have to say after watching the Liddy hearings today I better understand WHY the bonuses were given out-bad word for them. Should be called incentives, which would be closer to what they were. Get the work done, help us save the company and you'll make some money.

[ejpoeta]

18. matthews seemed intent on finding out who put stripped that snowe/wyden thing out

and put in a provision that seemed expressly for the purpose of protecting those bonuses. I keep hearing chris dodd-at least as the guy who wrote the provision that ended up in there. olympia snowe seemed to say that obama didn't like the provision she and wyden put forth. i hope that is not true.

[rvablue]

33. If Tweety wanted the truth and he wanted it now instead of playing pundit

all he would have to do is pick up the phone and do half an hour of real reporting instead of bloviating.

He has a million connections on Capitol Hill. The fist-pounding and faux "hardballing" are all so that we'll have to tune in for the rest of the week to watch his farce play out.

[ejpoeta]

34. i know. it's always good for a laugh though.

you wonder what they think the definition of 'journalist' is. because they aren't a journalist. they are talking heads.

[BuyingThyme]

15. It may have been Dodd's language, but it was probably Reid who put it in.

[BlooInBloo]

28. It's just a lie that DUers like to repeat...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5282743

[rocktivity]

6. Sen. Wyden talked about it with Rachel last night

Even he said the amendment "disappeared mysteriously." So nobody did it? All of a sudden I feel like I'm standing over a bunch of little kids and a broken lamp!

:eyes:
rocktivity

[global1]

7. Just Like We've Asked That The Bonuses Be Given Back Because.....

it is the right thing to do - the person or persons that took this bonus exclusion out of the bill needs to do the right thing and fess up and tell us he/she did it and why? It is the right thing for he/she to do.

We the Amerian People are outraged and we demand to know who took this out.

[Traveling_Home]

10. It was changed ...

It was changed in the reconciliation Conference. House, Senate and White House had conferees in attendance.
Dodd wasn't one of them. His $200,000 in donation from AIG mean he has to go anyway.

[Traveling_Home]

12. No repubs were there either. nt

[grasswire]

13. are there transcripts of conference sessions?

?

[Stinky The Clown]

16. MSNBC just reported that Wyden said he had no idea who took it out ..... ***BUT*** .......

.... it came out in conference. And the admin was represented. And the the admin opposed the bonus exclusion.

[MzNov]

19. Thom Hartmann thinks HARRY REID knows!

I would have to agree. That little vermin. Reid, not Hartmann. :mad:

[BuyingThyme]

21. Harry Reid:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5278121

[MzNov]

24. Mr. Backroom Deal

makes me want to :puke:

Lame Ass jerk. Snarl.

[EmilyAnne]

20. Maybe Jesus did it? Sort of like a "Jesus take the wheel" situation. n/t

[Captain Hilts]

22. Snowe just said the administration was against it. nt

[Stinky The Clown]

31. MSNBC reported that the admin was 'represented' in conference

.... they reported this right after the Snowe interview. They said the admin was against the provision.

[a kennedy]

25. heard on "talk of the nation" that Chris Dodd received more

money from AIG then any other senator.......don't know how to look this claim up, tried here: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00000581&cycle=2008

[BlooInBloo]

27. ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5282743

[a kennedy]

30. hey, thanks.....

and sorry for posting that....

[BlooInBloo]

26. "It wasn't me - was it you Bob?" "Nope, wasn't me, was it you Joan", "Nope, how about you Steve?"...

:rofl:

[spanone]

35. well, then let's release the minutes of the meeting where it happened