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      <excerpt>...also in attendance were Senator Joe Lieberman (no surprise there), Sen. Robert Casey (D-PA), Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA), Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV).  What are these legislators thinking? The Jerusa</excerpt>
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      <title>MJ Rosenberg: Senate and House Doves Attend Israeli Settler Pep Rally On Capitol Hill</title>
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      <excerpt>...legislation is based on a bill approved by the House Financial Services Committee that includes a provision introduced by Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., to allow smaller companies with fewer than 2 million cards in circulation to stick to the original Feb</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...said. He suggested allowing any member of Congress to request a vote to stop a disbursement of taxpayer money into the fund. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks)&#160;has criticized the legislation for creating what he called a permanent, unlimited version of</excerpt>
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      <title>Frank says financial industry should pay now for future bailouts</title>
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      <excerpt>...Department&#8217;s basement as a matter of meaningless parliamentary etiquette. They are anything but. At a recent hearing, Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., called the language &quot;TARP on steroids,&quot; noting the provisions would deliberately let the executive branc</excerpt>
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      <title>TARP on steroids</title>
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      <excerpt>...here.) The legislation is meeting stiff oppostion, though, from members of both parties. What has lawmakers like Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) and Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Alab.) riled up is a provision in the bill they say gives the White House and Treasu</excerpt>
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      <source>Mother Jones</source>
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      <title>This Is the TARP That Never Ends...</title>
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      <excerpt>...would later seek to recoup the cost to taxpayers from assessments on banks with more than $10 billion in assets. However, Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, which will be voting on the legislation, pl</excerpt>
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      <title>Lawmaker seeks OK from Congress for any bailouts</title>
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      <excerpt>...Department's basement as a matter of meaningless parliamentary etiquette. They are anything but. At a recent hearing, Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., called the language &quot;TARP on steroids,&quot; noting the provisions would deliberately let the executive branch </excerpt>
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      <title>TARP on steroids: recalling the financial explosion of 9/29</title>
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      <excerpt>...constraints. The identification of any company as &quot;too big to fail&quot; is what Republicans and California Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman say implies a government rescue. Sherman called the proposal &quot;TARP on steroids,&quot; referring to the last year's government </excerpt>
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      <title>More federal control will stave off further bailouts, Geithner says</title>
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      <excerpt>...require taxpayer money. &quot;Apparently, the 'too big to fail' model is too hard to kill,&quot; quipped Republican Rep Ed Royce. Rep Brad Sherman, another Democrat, called the bill &quot;TARP on steroids,&quot; referring to the government's USD 700 billion Wall Street res</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Timothy Geithner. &quot;But I do fear the accumulation of power exercised by someone in the future that can be extraordinary.&quot; Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., called the bill &quot;TARP on steroids,&quot; referring to the government's $700 billion Wall Street rescue fund</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Speaking of lucky, I&amp;#39;d like to double check how my rep, Brad Sherman voted. (We&amp;#39;re supposed to be paying attention to that stuff, right?) Does anyone have the link handy? Who voted how. Reply. View this users Facebook profile ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Washington, D.C. - Congressman Brad Sherman is proposing legislation to allow Bob Hope and Van Nuys Airports to implement mandatory nighttime curfews from 10 PM to 7 AM. Sherman&amp;#39;s legislation comes in the wake of the Federal Aviation ...</excerpt>
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