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January 7 - 2007 Legislative Summary: Regulatory Policy: Flood Insurance Reauthorization

January 7 - 2007 Legislative Summary: Regulatory Policy: Terrorism Insurance Extension

February 11 - A Flare-Up That May Have Saved McCain's Career

February 11 - Argentina's DeFault Position

February 11 - Fiscal 2009 Budget: Treasury

February 11 - States & Localities: Interstate Frustration

February 18 - Senate Panel Backs Bill to Keep Retail Companies From Owning Banks

March 3 - Homeowner Relief Measure StallsOver Bankruptcy Restructuring Plan

March 17 - Editor's Notebook: Danger Zone

March 17 - Fed Dips Into Bag of Liquidity Tricks

March 17 - Regulatory Checks and Balances

March 17 - Risk and Regulation

March 24 - Attitude Shift at Fed Shows in Big Bailout

March 24 - Editor's Notebook: Congressional Oversight

March 24 - Political Economy: A Capital Idea

April 7 - Highlights of the Treasury's Plan

April 7 - In Student Loan Market, A Direct Approach

April 7 - Major Provisions of the Senate Bill

April 7 - Mortgage Relief Moves Forward

April 7 - Paulson's Overhaul Plan Gets Reserved Praise

April 7 - Political Economy: Timing Isn't Everything

April 14 - Senate Passes Mortgage Crisis Measure

April 21 - K Street Remains an Easy Street in Hard Times

April 28 - Legislation in Search of Mortgage Relief

April 28 - Mortgage Relief Bill Takes Shape

May 5 - Full House to Take Up Bill to Expand FHA-Backed Mortgage Refinancing

May 5 - Highlights of the Mortgage Bill

May 12 - Higher Education Act Gets Extension; New Deadline Is Set for May 31

May 12 - House Passes Expanded Mortgage Bill

May 26 - Card Traffic Flying Under Regulatory Radar

May 26 - Deal Struck on Housing Measure

May 26 - Senate and House Mortgage Bills Compared

June 2 - Regulation's Bigger Picture

June 2 - The Banking World Turns Upside Down

June 23 - Client of the Month Club: Community Financial Services Association

June 23 - Mortgage Bill Nears Senate Passage With Broad Bipartisan Support

June 23 - Political Economy: Gee, Ya Think?

June 23 - Spending Plan Would Block Funds for Enforcing Media Ownership Rule

June 23 - Two Senators' Loans Prompt Complaint

June 30 - Bill Advances Without Budget Gap Plan

June 30 - Mortgage Relief Bill Held Up in Senate

June 30 - Senators' Mortgage Deals Lead to Calls for Disclosure

July 7 - FHA Guarantees Not a Panacea

July 7 - The Housing Gamble

July 14 - Approved Finance Bill Comes With Issues

July 14 - Comparison of House, Senate Mortgage Packages

July 14 - Senate Sends Mortgage Bill to House

July 21 - Dimensions of a Mortgage Crisis

July 21 - Fannie and Freddie's World of Lobbying

July 21 - Highlights of the Bush Mortgage Proposal

July 21 - Mortgage Giants' Critics: Once Isolated, Now Vindicated

July 21 - Political Economy: Rescue Redux

July 21 - Reservations About Treasury Plan

July 28 - GOP Efforts to Force Drilling Votes Stall Futures Trading Bill in Senate

July 28 - Highlights of the Mortgage Package

July 28 - Mortgage Relief on the Horizon

July 28 - Political Economy: Guessing Games

August 4 - Bill Would Subject Corporate and 'Muni' Bonds to Same Standards

August 4 - Highlights of the Higher Education Bill

August 4 - House Panel Votes to Bar Certain Credit Card Billing Practices, Ignoring Bank Objections

August 4 - Mortgage Relief Legislation Enacted; Senate Clears It in Weekend Session

September 8 - Second Stimulus Package in the Works

September 15 - A Bailout That Deals Congress Back In

September 15 - A Season of Bailouts

September 22 - Beyond the Bailouts

September 22 - Denouncing Wall Street After Taking the Money

September 22 - Hill Leaders Back Plan to Lend Struggling Automakers $25 Billion

September 22 - House Seeks Curbs on Futures Speculation

September 22 - Panel Moves Bill to Let Home Sellers Help With Buyers' Down Payments

September 22 - Strategy Rattles GOP Conservatives

September 22 - What the Government Will Do

September 29 - 'Oversight Congress' Sees Its Limits

September 29 - ANWR, Again to the Rescue

September 29 - House Takes Aim At Credit Card Billing Practices

September 29 - Provisions of the Bailout Program

September 29 - Stormy Seas for Financial Rescue

September 29 - The Reckoning After the Rescue

September 29 - When Both Candidate-Senators Joined the Talks

October 6 - Financial Rescue Becomes Law

October 6 - Holding the Financial Crisis Bag

October 6 - Issues: Infrastructure: Approach With Caution

October 6 - Political Economy: Of Haste and Hazard

October 6 - Provisions of the Mortgage Asset Purchase Program

October 6 - Seeking to Mend The Public Trust

October 13 - AIG and Lehman Brothers Executives Testify Before Oversight Committee

October 13 - Bankers Say Rule Adds to Misery

October 13 - Mortgage Crisis Reverberations

October 13 - Political Economy: Head-Spinning Days

October 20 - Lawmakers Press for Oversight As Financial Bailout Gears Up

October 20 - Political Economy: How Big a Banana?

October 20 - Rescue Takes on A New Purpose

October 27 - Auto Industry Seeks Help, Too

October 27 - Consolidation Fuels Megabank Boom

October 27 - Political Economy: Zero Bound

October 27 - Reinvestment Act in the Cross Hairs

October 27 - Talk of Stimulus Gains Momentum

November 3 - Business Booms in a Bear Market

November 3 - Learning the Lingo: A Lexicon of State and Local Leverage

November 3 - Local Services Feel the Squeeze

November 3 - Overhaul May Lift Hedge Funds' Veil

November 3 - Political Economy: Trick or Treat

November 3 - Strapped States Seek a Lifeline

November 10 - 111th House Committees: Financial Services

November 10 - 111th Senate Committees: Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs

November 10 - 111th Senate Committees: Finance

November 17 - Carmaker Rescue Hotly Contested

November 17 - Client of the Month Club: International Swaps and Derivatives Association

November 17 - Political Economy: Selling Us Short

November 24 - Political Economy: Forever Blowing Bubbles

December 8 - 2008 Legislative Summary: Auto Industry Assistance

December 8 - 2008 Legislative Summary: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Assistance

December 8 - 2008 Legislative Summary: Financial Industry Assistance

December 8 - 2008 Legislative Summary: Mental Health Parity Guarantees

December 8 - 2008 Legislative Summary: Mortgage Relief

December 8 - Automakers Face a Skeptical Hill

December 8 - GAO Report Calls Into Question Treasury Oversight of Bailout Law

December 8 - Political Economy: Grin and Bair It

December 15 - House Hesitates to Release TARP Funds

December 15 - Political Economy: Transcendent Voting