October 30, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is still trying to convince Congress to pass legislation to deal with “too big to fail” financial institutions before they get to the point of collapse. Law Professor Cornelius Hurley, director of the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law and a former counsel to the Fed Board of Governors, says [...]
October 29, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Congress is moving to give the Federal Trade Commission new powers to oversee and punish violators of FTC regulations aimed at protecting consumers. School of Management Professor Michael Salinger, a former FTC director, says the authority to impose civil penalties will help, but cautions that the ban on “unfair trade practices” in the FTC Act is [...]
October 6, 2009 at 11:06 am
The D.C. Council is considering a bill to legalize gay marriages in the District of Columbia. The question is, will Congress block it? School of Law Professor Linda McClain, an authority on the same-sex marriage national debate, says the answer revolves around whether conservatives will expend their political capital on this symbolic issue.
Contact Linda McClain, [...]
With senators still wrangling over theirs, House Democrats have unveiled their healthcare reform bill that now heads to votes in three committees. School of Management Professor Stephen Davidson, author of “In Urgent Need of Reform: Saving the U.S. Healthcare System,” can assess the various proposals as they percolate on Capitol Hill.
Contact Stephen Davidson, 617-353-7422, sdavidso@bu.edu
July 10, 2009 at 12:18 pm
In a recent post on Politico.com’s “The Arena” blog, political expert Thomas Whalen, a professor of social sciences in the College of General Studies, writes “the admission erodes the public’s already waning confidence in our intelligence community.” Whalen can be reached at tjw64@bu.edu
College of Communication Professor Linda Killian, director of BU’s Washington Journalism Center and author of “The Freshmen: What Happened to the Republican Revolution?,” has known disgraced S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford since he was first elected to Congress in 1994. In a U.S. News & World Report commentary, Killian suggests the lesson from Sanford’s downfall is [...]
Congress is now getting down to the “devil-in-the-details” level as it mulls various healthcare reform options, even as President Obama takes to prime-time TV to keep up the drum beat of change. School of Management Professor Stephen Davidson, author of the forthcoming “In Urgent Need of Reform: Saving the U.S. Healthcare System,” can discuss the options [...]
With the continued drama unfolding of who knew what in Congress about the illegal – or not - waterboarding technique, political expert Thomas Whalen is available to discuss the Congressional flip-flopping of the issue.
Contact Thomas Whalen, 617-353-4785, tjw64@bu.edu
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