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Saturday, June 11, 2011

New York Times: Pelosi and Other Leaders Call On Weiner to Resign

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Saturday, June 11, 2011 -- 2:27 PM EDT
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Pelosi and Other Leaders Call On Weiner to Resign

The move by the House Democratic leader underscored Democrats’ growing concern about Representative Anthony D. Weiner’s online exchanges with women.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/nyregion/pelosi-calls-on-weiner-to-resign.html?emc=na

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Saturday, June 11, 2011 -- 3:26 PM EDT
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Anthony Weiner to Enter Treatment Center and Seek Leave From House

Representative Anthony D. Weiner planned to check himself into a treatment center on Saturday after House Democratic leaders, including Nancy Pelosi, called on him to resign and suggested he needed psychiatric counseling.

A spokeswoman for Mr. Weiner said he would request a leave of absence from the House and seek treatment, but provided no further details.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/nyregion/pelosi-calls-on-weiner-to-resign.html?emc=na
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Networks Ignore New Request for $15 Billion Bailout for Fannie Mae


March 03, 2010 - Volume 6, Issue 9

TOP STORY

Networks Ignore New Request for $15 Billion Bailout for Fannie Mae
Mortgage-backer has bled taxpayers for more than $75 billion, but is rarely criticized by the news media.
By Julia A. Seymour

What’s another $75-billion bailout? Not much, according to the media – as long as Uncle Sam’s aid goes to a business with deep ties to the Democratic Party. Of course, that’s Fannie Mae that asked for another $15.3 billion bailout last week. While taxpayers open their wallets once again, the silence from the network news broadcasts is deafening.

VIDEO: Santelli Condemns Networks for Ignoring Removal of ‘Pig Slop’ Cap on Fannie, Freddie


COMMENTARY

Our Greecey Future
Only immediate, drastic action can keep us from a Greek-style meltdown.
By Dan Kennedy

On Feb. 24, ABC News announced it was cutting 300 jobs. Too bad Congress and the President refuse to join in recognizing reality.

COMMENTARY

Here Lies Nancy Pelosi; Will Journalists Notice
Speaker of the House changes tune about tea parties, but media don't call her on it.
By Dan Gainor

Nancy Pelosi is lying. OK, maybe that’s not a revelation. As a politician, the mere fact that she continues to breathe means she’s lying at least some of the time. You can tell politicians are lying in the United States when they have a letter after their name such as “D,” “R” or “I.”

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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Speaker Accuses CIA of Lying


Speaker Accuses CIA of Lying May 14, 2009, 12:17 p.m. By Tory Newmyer Roll Call Staff

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) pushed back hard against the controversy over what she knew, and when, about harsh Bush-era interrogation techniques by accusing the CIA of lying to her in a classified briefing on the matter in September 2002.

“At every step of the way, the administration was misleading the Congress. And that is the issue,” Pelosi told reporters Thursday.

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Meanwhile, Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), the ranking member on the Intelligence Committee, immediately derided Pelosi’s statements. “What is this, like version 3.0 from Nancy’s perspective of what happened in that meeting?” he asked.

Hoekstra said Pelosi’s allegations about the CIA are serious, calling it “a very, very serious charge. I’m not a lawyer, but I would expect that Congress would treat that as a crime.” 2009 © Roll Call Inc. All rights reserved.

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Read the entire article in Roll Call here: Speaker Accuses CIA of Lying

http://www.rollcall.com/news/34921-1.html

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Sunday, November 23, 2008

New York Times Op Ed columnist suggests Bush turn the presidency over to Pelosi for a Thanksgiving present…



New York Times Op-Ed columnist Gail Collins has suggested that for Thanksgiving President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Chaney ought to resign and turn the president’s office over to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

No, this is not April Fools Day and to the best of knowledge, this is not a spoof.

And no this is not humor from The Onion or a Katie Couric dream sequence.

It’s well, read on…



Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning.

Gail Collins photo by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times

Seriously. We have an economy that’s crashing and a vacuum at the top. Bush — who is currently on a trip to Peru to meet with Asian leaders who no longer care what he thinks — hasn’t got the clout, or possibly even the energy, to do anything useful. His most recent contribution to resolving the fiscal crisis was lecturing representatives of the world’s most important economies on the glories of free-market capitalism.

Putting Barack Obama in charge immediately isn’t impossible. Dick Cheney, obviously, would have to quit as well as Bush. In fact, just to be on the safe side, the vice president ought to turn in his resignation first. (We’re desperate, but not crazy.) Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would become president until Jan. 20. Obviously, she’d defer to her party’s incoming chief executive, and Barack Obama could begin governing.


Read the entire column here: New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Time for Him to Go By Gail Collins

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/opinion/22collins.html

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Wednesday, October 01, 2008

This week in The Tentacle – October 1, 2008

This week in The Tentacle – October 1, 2008

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

From the Desk of The Publisher
John W. Ashbury
Yesterday Delegate Rick Weldon announced that he has changed his voter registration from "Republican" to "Unaffiliated." The text of his announcement is presented here for your edification.

Congress and the Rattlesnake – Part 1
Kevin E. Dayhoff
In response to the increasing wrath of the American voter, the U.S. House of Representatives came to its senses on Monday and voted 288 to 205 to kill the rash and ill-conceived proposed $700 billion bailout of Wall Street.

Two Faces
Tom McLaughlin
I was really surprised how much Sen. John McCain reminded me of Dad. I watched him in the first debate and his mannerisms, coupled with his speech patterns, had Dad written all over him.


Tuesday, September 30, 2008
My Best Friend's Fancy
Roy Meachum
Other people said Pushkin is Downtown Frederick's best known celebrity. He also runs high in the best-loved category. Every time the English pointer hits the sidewalk, his fans appear. They start conversations when their heads reach my knee level.


The Rites of Autumn on Two Wheels
Nick Diaz
Readers of TheTentacle.com may remember one of my earlier columns, written late last Fall, in which I listed the 10 dumb questions people ask of motorcycle riders. Since it’s the last day of September, several days past the equinox, one of the 10 dumb questions deserves reiteration, to wit:


Monday, September 29, 2008
Take a Chance
Richard B. Weldon Jr.
Well, it seems as though every expert, bush league moralist, and elected opinion maker is busy sharing their opinions on the question of slot machines in Maryland. In fact, the rush to find a microphone is so overwhelming that it sounds like a stampede.


Three Blind Mice
Steven R. Berryman
What do the president’s speech to the American people on Thursday, and the performance of both the Democratic and Republican candidate at the first presidential debate in Oxford, Mississippi, have in common? Answer: None of them acted with full candor and in a bipartisan way, as advertised.


Friday, September 26, 2008
GOP Rotten Fish
Roy Meachum
Coming out of the Fredericktown movies Wednesday I was greeted by the voice of the commander-in-chief. George W. Bush informed me and all Americans that his financial rescue proposal would save the lives we cheer. It was a clunker of a speech.


Don’t Panic!
Steven R. Berryman
…With those words, and the threat of bipartisan congressional intervention, you may wish to do exactly that. Any rush to solution is certainly against the best interests of the citizens of the United States of America.


Making A Wise Choice
Derek Shackelford
Okay, it has been weeks since the glitz and glamour, the pomp and circumstances, the cartwheels, boos over the “other” name and cheers for it as well just because someone delivered a good punch line.


Thursday, September 25, 2008
Struggling Citizens = Pay Hike?
Joan McIntyre
In the legislative package that is just now being developed for the upcoming session, Commissioner David Gray put a proposal on the table for not only a raise for the Board of County Commissioners but a raise of huge proportions and with no reasoning other than it makes sense to him. How could you argue with that?


From Whence Cometh This Star Status
Chris Cavey
There is a growing phenomenon that is taking the United States by storm – The Palin Effect. You can recognize this new occurrence by the renewed and intense interest in national politics by the overall female population.


Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Bush’s Crowd to Blame
Tom McLaughlin
For the past year the nation has been embroiled in a roller coaster ride of the economy brought about by President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and their cronies.


The Taneytown Business Breakfast
Kevin E. Dayhoff
I recently had a chance to attend the Taneytown business breakfast. I jumped at the opportunity to take a wonderful break from the drama of national politics and the byzantine intrigue over projected shortfalls in the Maryland state budget.


Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Election Year Low-jinks
Roy Meachum
The Harvard of the West is the catch-phrase prized by California's Stanford University. By whatever name, a recent survey designed and supervised in the school's Palo Alto academic laboratories is, by any standard, the dumbest thing I've encountered going back through nearly 60 years in journalism.


Demand Answers, Expect None
Farrell Keough
When Congress, the president, and the Federal Reserve come together to make a huge new plan with very little dissent or public discussion, it is time to worry. That is what occurred last weekend.


Monday, September 22, 2008
You Bet Your Life…
Steven R. Berryman
The market psychology of the financial investment world has now changed forever. What had been betting essentially on the fortunes of businesses will at least – for the short term – be replaced by betting on how we suspect the rules of the game will change.

20081001 This week in The Tentacle – October 1, 2008

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

The Pelosi Charm

The Pelosi Charm

Monday, September 29, 2008

Democrat Speaker of the House left no doubt that she skipped the class in charm school that taught that it is to one’s advantage to be nice to folks when you want something from them.
“Reps. Boehner, Blunt, and Cantor said they had at least a dozen more votes for the bill until Nancy Pelosi came to the floor just after 12:20 eastern time and gave an exceedingly partisan speech that effectively killed the bill.” (GOP: Pelosi Killed Bill With Partisan Speech Posted by TOM BEVAN on the Real Clear Politics blog)

This speech was incomprehensible reprehensible revisionist history in which, what may very well be the most galling moral relativism, she praises Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) whose fingerprints are over the causes of current financial meltdown.

Representative Frank said in 2003: “I think it is clear that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are sufficiently secure so they are in no great danger... I don't think we face a crisis; I don't think that we have an impending disaster. ...Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac do very good work, and they are not endangering the fiscal health of this country.” (Doug Ross The Fannie Mae testimony that will make you scream in anger)

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said in 2003: “I have sat through nearly a dozen hearings where, frankly, we were trying to fix something that wasn't broke. [sic] ...These GSEs have more than adequate capital for the business they are in: providing affordable housing. As I mentioned, we should not be making radical or fundamental change... If there is anything to fix or improve, it is the [regulators].” (Doug Ross The Fannie Mae testimony that will make you scream in anger)

“Five years ago, Republicans proposed ‘the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry [in a decade].’ (Source: New York Times) Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee blocked efforts at fixing Fannie and Freddie. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) said, ‘Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... are not facing any kind of financial crisis,’” (Doug Ross: Any Questions)

Speaker Pelosi says that the current meltdown is all the fault of President George W. Bush and free market capitalism. Yet this is inconsistent with: Wayne Barrett at the Village Voice: “[Clinton appointee] Andrew Cuomo... made a series of decisions between 1997 and 2001 that gave birth to the country's current crisis. He took actions that... helped plunge Fannie and Freddie into the subprime markets without putting in place the means to monitor their increasingly risky investments. He turned the Federal Housing Administration...into a sweetheart lender with sky-high loan ceilings and no money down, and he legalized what a federal judge has branded "kickbacks" to brokers that have fueled the sale of overpriced and unsupportable loans. Three to four million families are now facing foreclosure, and Cuomo is one of the reasons why.” (Doug Ross The Fannie Mae testimony that will make you scream in anger)

Hat Tip for AP photo: Don Surber – “A confident Democrat Barney Frank promises solvency in our time as he announces the breakthrough bailout. Voting is only a formality…”

Related:

Transcript of Speaker Pelosi’s Floor Statement on the partisan Financial Rescue Legislation moments before it was voted down

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Doug Ross The Fannie Mae testimony that will make you scream in anger

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20080928 The Pelosi Charm

Transcript of Speaker Pelosi’s Floor Statement on the partisan Financial Rescue Legislation moments before it was voted down


Transcript of Speaker Pelosi’s Floor Statement on the partisan Financial Rescue Legislation moments before it was voted down

September 29, 2008


Madam speaker, when was the last time anyone ever asked you for $700 billion? It’s a staggering figure. And many questions have arisen from that request. And we have been hearing, I think, a very informed debate on all sides — of — of this issue here today. I’m proud of the debate.

$700 billion. A staggering number. But only a part of the cost of the failed Bush economic policies to our country. Policies that were built on budget recklessness. When President Bush took office, he inherited President Clinton’s surpluses — four years in a row, budget surpluses, on a trajectory of $5.6 trillion in surplus. And with his reckless economic policies, within two years, he had turned that around.

And now eight years later, the foundation of that fiscal irresponsibility, combined with an anything goes economic policy, has taken us to where we are today. They claim to be free market advocates, when it’s really an anything goes mentality. No regulation, no supervision, no discipline. And if you fail, you will have a golden parachute, and the taxpayer will bail you out.

Those days are over. The party is over in that respect. Democrats believe in a free market. We know that it can create jobs, it can create wealth, it can create many good things in our economy. But in this case, in its unbridled form, as encouraged, supported, by the Republicans — some in the Republican Party, not all — it has created not jobs, not capital, it has created chaos.

And it is that chaos that the secretary of the Treasury and the chairman of the Fed came to see us just about a week and a half ago — seems like an eternity, doesn’t it, so much has happened, the news was so bad. They described a very, very dismal situation. A dismal situation describing the state of our economy, the fragility of our financial institutions and the instability of our markets, our equity markets, our credit markets, our bond market.

And here we were listening to people who knew of what they spoke. Secretary of the Treasury brings long credentials and knowledge of the markets. More fearful, though, to me, more scary, was the statement — were the statements of Chairman Bernanke [Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve], because Chairman Bernanke is probably one of the foremost authorities in America on the subject of the Great Depression. I don’t know what was so great about the Depression, but that’s the name they give it. And we heard the secretary and the chairman tell us that this was a once in a hundred year phenomenon, this fiscal crisis was so drastic. Certainly once in 50 years, probably once in a hundred years.

And how did it sneak up on us? So silently, almost on little cat feet. That they would come in on that day — and they didn’t actually ask for the money, that much money that night. It took two days until we saw the legislation that they were proposing to help calm the markets. And it was on that day that we learned of a $700 billion request.

But it wasn’t just the money that was alarming. It was the nature of the legislation. It gave the secretary of the Treasury czar-like powers, unlimited powers, latitude to do all kinds of things and specifically prohibited judicial review or review of any other federal administrative agency to review their actions.

Another aspect of it that was alarming is it gave the secretary the power to use any money that came back from these infusions of cash to be used at the discretion of the secretary. Not to reduce the deficit, not to go into the general funds so that we could afford other priorities. To be used at the discretion of the secretary. It was shocking. Working together in a bipartisan way, we were able to make major improvements on that proposal, even though its fundamental basis was almost arrogant and insulting.

The American people responded almost immediately. Overwhelmingly, they said they know that something needs to be done. Say 78 percent of the American people said Congress must act. Fifty-eight-some percent said, but not to accept the Bush proposal. And so here we are today, a week later and a couple of days later, coming to the floor with a product — not a bill that I would have written, one that has major disappointments with me, beginning with the fact that it does not have bankruptcy in this bill — and we will continue to persist and work to achieve that.

It’s interesting, though, to me that when they describe this, the magnitude of the challenge and the precipice that we were on and how we had to act quickly and we had to act boldly and we had to act now, that it never occurred to them that the consequences of this market were being felt well in advance by the American people. And unemployment is up, and therefore we need unemployment insurance. That jobs are lacking, and therefore we need a stimulus package. So how can on the one hand could this be so urgent at the moment, and yet so unnecessary for us to address the effects of this poor economy in the households of America across our country?

We’ll come back to that in a moment. Working together, we put together some standards — and I am really proud of what Barney Frank did in this regard. The first night, that night, that Thursday night, when we got the very, very dismal news, he immediately said, if we’re going to do this — and Spencer Bachus was a part of this as well — in terms of if we’re going to do this, we must have equity for the American people. We’re putting up $700 billion, we want the American people to get some of the upside. So equity, fairness for the American people.

Secondly, if they were describing the root of the problem as the mortgage-backed securities, Barney insisted that we would have forbearance on foreclosure. If we’re now going to own that paper, that we would then have forbearance to help responsible homeowners stay in their home.

In addition to that, we have to have strong, strong oversight. We didn’t even have to see the $700 billion or the full extent of their bill to know that we needed equity and upside for the taxpayer, forbearance for the homeowner, oversight of the government on what they were doing, and something that the American people understand full well, an end to the golden parachutes and the — a — review and reform of the compensation for C.E.O.’s.

Let’s get this straight. We have a situation where on Wall Street people are flying high, they are making unconscionable amounts of money. They make a lot of money, they privatize the gain, the minute things go tough, they nationalize the risk. They get a golden parachute as they drive their firm into the ground, and the American people have to pick up the tab. Something is very, very wrong with this picture.

So just on first blush, that Thursday night, we made it clear, meeting much resistance on the part of the administration, that those four things, equity, forbearance, oversight, and reform of compensation. Overriding all of this is a protection of the taxpayer. We need to stabilize the markets. In doing so, we need to protect the taxpayers.

And that’s why I’m so glad that this bill contains a suggestion made by Mr. Tanner [Representative John Tanner, Democrat of Tennessee] that if at the end of the day, say in five years, when we can take a review of the success or whatever of this initiative, that if there is a shortfall and we don’t get our whole $700 billion back that we have invested, that there will be an initiative to have the financial institutions that benefited from this program to make up that shortfall.

But not one penny of this should be carried by the American people. People asked, and Mr. Spratt [Representative John M. Spratt Jr., Democrat of South Carolina] spoke with great knowledge and eloquence on the budget and aspects of the budget. $700 billion, what is the impact, what is the opportunity cost for our country of the investments that we would want to make?

O.K., now we have it in place where the taxpayer is going to be made whole and that was very important for us. But why on the drop of a hat can they ask us for $700 billion, and we couldn’t get any support from the administration on a stimulus package that would also help grow the economy?

People tell me all over the world that the biggest emerging market, economic market in the world, is rebuilding the infrastructure of America. Roads, bridges, waterways, water systems in addition to waterways. The grid, broadband, schools, housing, certain schools. We are trillions of dollars in deficit there.

We know what we need to do to do it in a fiscally sound way, in a fiscally sound way that creates good-paying jobs in America immediately. Brings money into the treasury by doing so, and again does all of this in an all-American way. Good-paying jobs here in America.

We can’t get the time of day for 25, $35 billion for that, which we know guarantees jobs, et cetera, but $700 billion. So make no mistake, when this Congress adjourns today to observe Rosh Hashanah and have members go home for a bit, we are doing so at the call of the chair. Because this subject is not over, this discussion about how we save our economy.

And we must insulate Main Street from Wall Street. And as Congresswoman Waters [Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California] said, Martin Luther King Drive, in my district Martin Luther King Drive, and Cedar Chavez Road and all of the manifestations of community and small businesses in our community. We must insulate them from that. And so we have difficult choices, and so many of the things that were said on both sides of this issue in terms of its criticisms of the bill we have and the bill that we had at first, and the very size of this, I share. You want to go home, so I’m not going to list all of my concerns that I have with it.

But it just comes down to one simple thing. They have described a precipice. We are on the brink of doing something that might pull us back from that precipice. I think we have a responsibility. We have worked in a bipartisan way. I want to acknowledge Mr. Blunt and Mr. Boehner, the work that we have done together, trying to find as much common ground as possible on this.

But we insisted the taxpayer be covered. We all insisted that we have a party-is-over message to Wall Street. And we insisted that, that taxpayers at risk must recover — that any risk must be recovered. I told you that already. So, my colleagues, let’s recognize that this Congressional — this legislation is not the end of the line.

Mr. Waxman [Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California] will be having vigorous oversight this week, hearings this week on regulatory reform and other aspects of it. I hope you will pursue fraud and mismanagement and the rest. Mr. Frank and his committee will continue to pursue other avenues that we can stabilize the markets and protect the taxpayer. For too long, this government, in eight years, has followed a right-wing ideology of anything goes, no supervision, no discipline, no regulation.

Again, all of us are believers in free markets, but we have to do it right. Now, let me again acknowledge the extraordinary leadership of Mr. Frank. He has been an exceptional leader in the Congress, but never has his knowledge and his experience and his judgment been more needed than now. And I thank you, Mr. Frank, for your exceptional leadership, Mr. Chairman.

I also — so many people worked on this, but I also want to acknowledge the distinguished chair of our caucus, Mr. Emanuel. His knowledge of the markets, the respect he commands on those subjects, and his boundless energy on the subjects served us well in these negotiations. But this, this is a bipartisan initiative that we are bringing to the floor. We have to have a bipartisan vote on this. That is the only message that will send a message of confidence to the markets.

So I hope that — I know that we will be able to live up to our side of the bargain. I hope the Republicans will, too.

But my colleagues, as you go home and see your families and observe the holiday and the rest, don’t get settled in too far, because as long as the American — this challenge is there for the American people, the threat of losing their jobs, the credit, their credit, their jobs, their savings, their retirement, the opportunity for them to send their children to college.

As long as in the households of America, this crisis is being felt very immediately and being addressed at a different level, we must come back, and we will come back as soon and as often as it is necessary to make the change that is necessary. And before long we will have a new Congress, a new president of the United States, and we will be able to take our country in a new direction.


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20080929 Pelosi Fl St on Bipartisan Fin Rescue Leg

20080929 Transcript of Speaker Pelosi’s Floor Statement on the partisan Financial Rescue Legislation moments before it was voted down

Monday, September 29, 2008

Pelosi Floor Statement on Bipartisan Financial Rescue Legislation


Pelosi Floor Statement on Bipartisan Financial Rescue Legislation

For Immediate Release 09/29/2008

Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami

Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor this afternoon in support the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. Below are her remarks, as prepared:

“Madam Speaker, when was the last time someone asked you for $700 billion?

“It is a number that is staggering, but tells us only the costs of the Bush Administration’s failed economic policies—policies built on budgetary recklessness, on an anything goes mentality, with no regulation, no supervision, and no discipline in the system.

“Democrats believe in the free market, which can and does create jobs, wealth, and capital, but left to its own devices it has created chaos.

“That chaos is the dismal picture painted by Treasury Secretary Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke a week and a half ago in the Capitol. As they pointed out, we confront a crisis of historic magnitude that has the ability to do serious injury not simply to our economy, but to the American people: not just to Wall Street, but to everyday Americans on Main Street.

“It is our responsibility today, to help avert that catastrophic outcome.

“Let us be clear: This is a crisis caused on Wall Street. But it is a crisis that reaches to Main Street in every city and town of the United States.

“It is a crisis that freezes credit, causes families to lose their homes, cripples small businesses, and makes it harder to find jobs.

“It is a crisis that never had to happen. It is now the duty of every Member of this body to recognize that the failure to act responsibly, with full protections for the American taxpayer, would compound the damage already done to the financial security of millions of American families.

“Over the past several days, we have worked with our Republican colleagues to fashion an alternative to the original plan of the Bush Administration.

“I must recognize the outstanding leadership provided by Chairman Barney Frank, whose enormous intellectual and strategic abilities have never before been so urgently needed, or so widely admired.

“I also want to recognize Rahm Emanuel, who combined his deep knowledge of financial institutions with his pragmatic policy experience, to resolve key disagreements.

“Secretary Paulson deserves credit for working day and night to help reach an agreement and for his flexibility in negotiating changes to his original proposal.

“Democrats insisted that legislation responding to this crisis must protect the American people and Main Street from the meltdown on Wall Street.

“The American people did not decide to dangerously weaken our regulatory and oversight policies. They did not make unwise and risky financial deals. They did not jeopardize the economic security of the nation. And they must not pay the cost of this emergency recovery and stabilization bill.

“So we insisted that this bill contain several key provisions:

“This legislation must contain independent and ongoing oversight to ensure that the recovery program is managed with full transparency and strict accountability.

“The legislation must do everything possible to allow as many people to stay in their homes rather than face foreclosure.

“The corporate CEOs whose companies will benefit from the public’s participation in this recovery must not benefit by exorbitant salaries and golden parachute retirement bonuses.

“Our message to Wall Street is this: the party is over. The era of golden parachutes for high-flying Wall Street operators is over. No longer will the U.S. taxpayer bailout the recklessness of Wall Street.

“The taxpayers who bear the risk in this recovery must share in the upside as the economy recovers.

“And should this program not pay for itself, the financial institutions that benefited, not the taxpayers, must bear responsibility for making up the difference.
“These were the Democratic demands to safeguard the American taxpayer, to help the economy recover, and to impose tough accountability as a central component of this recovery effort.

“This legislation is not the end of congressional activity on this crisis. Over the course of the next few weeks, we will continue to hold investigative and oversight hearings to find out how the crisis developed, where mistakes were made, and how the recovery must be managed to protect the middle class and the American taxpayer.

“With passage of this legislation today, we can begin the difficult job of turning our economy around, of helping those who depend on a growing economy and stable financial institutions for a secure retirement, for the education of their children, for jobs and small business credit.

“Today we must act for those Americans, for Main Street, and we must act now, with the bipartisan spirit of cooperation which allowed us to fashion this legislation.

“This not enough. We are also working to restore our nation’s economic strength by passing a new economic recovery stimulus package—a robust, job creating bill—that will help Americans struggling with high prices, get our economy back on track, and renew the American Dream.

“Today, we will act to avert this crisis, but informed by our experience of the past eight years with the failed economic leadership that has left us left capable of meeting the challenges of the future.

“We choose a different path. In the new year, with a new Congress and a new president, we will break free with a failed past and take America in a New Direction to a better future.”

http://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/pressreleases?id=0848

20080929 Pelosi Floor Statement on Bipartisan Financial Rescue Legislation

Monday, August 04, 2008

Charles Krauthammer: No-Drill Policy Actually Harms Environment

Charles Krauthammer: No-Drill Policy Actually Harms Environment

August 4, 2008

In an argument that has yet to be adequately explored, Charles Krauthammer makes a convincing case that the U. S. “
No-Drill Policy Actually Harms Environment.”

Charles Krauthammer: No-Drill Policy Actually Harms Environment

By
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Thursday, July 31, 2008 4:30 PM PT

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opposes lifting the moratorium on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and on the Outer Continental Shelf. She won't even allow it to come to a vote.

With $4 gas having massively shifted public opinion in favor of domestic production, she wants to protect her Democratic members from having to cast an anti-drilling election-year vote.

Moreover, given the public mood, she might even lose. This cannot be permitted. Why? Because as she explained to Politico: "I'm trying to save the planet; I'm trying to save the planet."

A lovely sentiment. But has Pelosi actually thought through the moratorium's actual effects on the planet?

Consider: 25 years ago, nearly 60% of U.S. petroleum was produced domestically. Today it's 25%. From its peak in 1970, U.S. production has declined a staggering 47%. The world consumes 86 million barrels a day; the United States, roughly 20 million. We need the stuff to run our cars and planes and economy. Where does it come from?

Places like Nigeria, where chronic corruption, environmental neglect and resulting unrest and instability lead to pipeline explosions, oil spills and illegal siphoning by the poverty-stricken population — which leads to more spills and explosions.

[…]


To read the rest of the column go here:
Charles Krauthammer: No-Drill Policy Actually Harms Environment

20080731 Charles Krauthammer: No-Drill Policy Actually Harms Environment

Monday, October 22, 2007

20071021 Pelosi's judgment questioned over Armenia issue by Susan Cornwall

Pelosi's judgment questioned over Armenia issue by Susan Cornwall

October 21, 2007

The Armenian Genocide Resolution was so ill advised that it went beyond the bizarre… Yes, it was a horrific episode, but for the United States Congress to address the matter almost a hundred years later – in today’s complex context is arrogant and well, almost too weird. No word as to whether the Turkish Parliament is considering a resolution condemning the United States for its shameful slavery epoch or the systematic genocide committed against Native Americans…

Pelosi's judgment questioned over Armenia issue by Susan Cornwall

By Susan Cornwell October 21, 2007 - Democrat Nancy Pelosi's pledge of a new direction took a detour when she fumbled an Armenian genocide resolution and raised questions about her leadership as the highest ranking member of the U.S. Congress.

Pelosi, 67, speaker of the House of Representatives and next in line to the presidency after the vice president, swore she would push the controversial resolution to a vote, then blinked when some fellow Democrats withdrew their support in the face of furious reaction from Turkey.

President George W. Bush warned the symbolic resolution to affirm the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide would harm Washington's relations with Ankara. But as long as it looked like it would pass, Pelosi stuck to her guns.

When Democratic support started waning last week amid protests from NATO ally Turkey -- which denounced the measure as "insulting" and hinted at halting logistical support for the U.S. war effort in Iraq -- Pelosi wavered.

Critics say she miscalculated.

"It's certainly not her finest moment," said Michael O'Hanlon, senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

"There's been no great harm done, but we do have to find some ways to mend the U.S.-Turkish relationship."

Turkey accepts that many Armenians were killed in World War One, but denies they were victims of a systematic genocide.

Pelosi took office amid much fanfare 10 months ago. She proposed "a new direction" for America and vowed to challenge Bush on a host of fronts, including the Iraq war.

Read the entire piece here: Pelosi's judgment questioned over Armenia issue by Susan Cornwall

Friday, February 02, 2007

20070201 Pelosi Out of touch


Debuting the new “Pelosi Air Force.” Becoming Speaker of the House – important. Getting your own F-8 – millions. Becoming Speaker of the House and getting your own air force - priceless. www.kevindayhoff.net Feb. 1, 2007

Pelosi Out of touch

Good morning Mrs. Pelosi – it’s time to go to work.

February 1st, 2007

H/t: D9000

Re: “Speaker pursues military flights” By Rowan Scarborough THE WASHINGTON TIMES, February 1, 2007.

When Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says that she wants the troops out of Iraq, it has recently become clearer that what she really wants is the Air Force out of the combat zone so that it can become her personal air taxi.

Oh, it is so important to be important…

A colleague of mine, who is a veteran of the war in Iraq, recently sent me an e-mail, which reflects much of what my ear to the ground, is hearing from military folks about the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. (Also see “label”: “Pelosi - Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi”… The Pending Pelosian Malthusian Prerogative” … or here…)

It is not pretty. As far as many folks who are straining to find parallels with the Vietnam War, many of us ardent supporters of the military are having terrible flashbacks about the administration of President William J. Clinton and his First Lady, now New York Senator, Hillary Clinton.

Spin it anyway you want to, the Clinton Administration had a horrific affect on the military. The Clintons and their liberal Democratic administration abhorred the military. Careers were truncated or in many instances, totally trashed. Instead of pursuing the necessary defense of our great nation and the freedoms we so enjoy; they pursued Class Warfare. Their personal gain and social agenda was at our expense and it greatly endangered all of us…

Now comes Speaker Pelosi - - and Senator Clinton is running for the oval office and many of us who keenly remember the days of the liberal Democratic control of Congress and the Clinton years are all having terrible nightmares.

Anyway, my Veteran colleague called to my attention an article in the Washington Times: http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070201-122225-1157r.htm, with the following forward:

“I guess Mrs. Pelosi assumes the air force has nothing better to do than be her personal chauffer. Just goes to show how out of touch some of our democrats are when it comes to the military. Hope all is well.”

For more information about my colleague – read my Tentacle column from December 20, 2006: “An Uneasy Truce” – “Christmas is within a week and my thoughts and prayers go out to the men and women in uniform who are deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq…”

For more of my previous thoughts about the Speaker of the House, read my January 10, 2007 Tentacle column: "A Message to Speaker Pelosi"“Last Wednesday our nation witnessed an historic first when California Rep. Nancy Pelosi was elected to be the first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives…”

For my current thoughts on the Iraq War, read my January 17, 2007 Tentacle column, "NUTS!" – “Last Thursday President George W. Bush addressed the nation with his long awaited "New Way Forward in Iraq…”

To which a reader from Frederick, Mr. Tansey said it best in his response:

“Kevin : Right on-we have no choice but to continue the fight in Iraq. American people better wake up to a real threat. Why don't you consider reducing your article and send it to an editor - Washington (T)imes, Frederick News-(P)ost, etc? I write a letter on occasions. Have one in right now on the same subject. Two of my brothers were severely wounded at the Battle of the Bulge. I am an army veteran of 24 years. Enjoyed your article. Keep it up.”

Perhaps the best quote on Speaker Pelosi came from the late New York Post Washington D.C. Bureau Chief Deborah Orin-Eilbeck, (who passed away this past Saturday, January 27th, 2007,) “Forget 'The Devil Wears Prada' - the hot show in Washington is 'The Shrew Adores Armani.' In just a few short days, House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi has turned into a caricature of the shrill, petty woman boss.”

For more on the dynamics of Armani suits and the Speaker of the House, read my November 15, 2006 Tentacle column, “A Marine Corps Birthday Present” -. “The United States Marine Corps has had significant participation in every American armed conflict since November 10, 1775; and its role as a rapid deployment force to fully defend our nation against terrorist threats and to effectuate foreign policy has never been more important than today…”

For more on Deborah Orin-Eilbeck read my Tentacle column on her from this past Wednesday, January 31, 2007, “Who was Deborah Orin-Eilbeck? – “Last Saturday, the New York Post's Washington bureau chief, Deborah Orin-Eilbeck, passed away. Published accounts noted that she died at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of stomach cancer.”

(Hopefully another version – another column in memorial tribute to Ms. Orin-Eilbeck will appear in the Washington Examiner.)

Which all leads us to the piece in the Washington Times, called to our attention by my colleague; “Speaker pursues military flights” By Rowan Scarborough THE WASHINGTON TIMES, February 1, 2007.

The office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pressing the Bush administration for routine access to military aircraft for domestic flights, such as trips back to her San Francisco district, according to sources familiar with the discussions.

The sources, who include those in Congress and in the administration, said the Democrat is seeking regular military flights not only for herself and her staff, but also for relatives and for other members of the California delegation. A knowledgeable source called the request "carte blanche for an aircraft any time."

"They are pressing the point of her succession and that the [Department of Defense] needs to play ball with the speaker's needs," one source said. The request originally went to the Pentagon, which then asked the White House to weigh in. (My emphasis…)

Well I’m certainly glad that the military exists for the benefit of Speaker Pelosi. Perhaps in their spare time the military can also defend the country and defend the right of the Speaker of the House to not support the very organization that stands between her, you and me – and folks who wish to do us harm and deny us the very rights to which have become accustomed.

The Speaker of the House has, no doubt, enormous rights and privileges. Many of us are waiting, with baited breath, for the Speaker to understand that with those rights and privileges come responsibilities.

Liberal ideology and empty political rhetoric might be nice for a Hollywood cocktail party adorned in an elegant Armani suit, but the next morning, the real world awaits and it sure isn’t elegant.

Good morning Mrs. Pelosi – it is time to go to work.

Kevin Dayhoff

February 1st, 2007

Sunday, January 14, 2007

20070114 Mr. Wissing has found some Humor in the House

Mr. Wissing has found some Humor in the House

January 14, 2007

David Wissing over at “The Hedgehog Report” has a great post, “Humor in the House.”

It is a video of the fun that breaks out when “A question posed by a Member from the floor asking for procedural clarification.”

Mr. Wissing found it on “Gateway Pundit.”

He also wrote, “By the way, Nancy Pelosi has felt enough heat that she has now agreed to change the just passed minimum wage bill to include American Samoa before it reaches President Bush’s desk.”

Be sure to read his post and view the video. Find it here.

http://www.hedgehogreport.com/index.php/6681

Kevin

Friday, January 05, 2007

20070104 Congressman Bartlett Introduces 14 Bills at Start of 110th Congress


Congressman Roscoe Bartlett Introduces 14 Bills at Start of 110th Congress, Recognizes Historic First Woman Speaker

January 4, 2007

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the first day of the 110th Congress, Congressman Roscoe Bartlett said that, “America is the greatest country in the world and every first day of every new Congress we set a new world record.

We are blessed to have a federal government that is the world’s longest continuously operating constitutional republic.

2007 marks the 15th year that I will have the honor to serve more than 660,000 residents of the Sixth District of Maryland as their representative in the Congress.

I have introduced fourteen bills and I look forward to advancing them and three priority issues: ethical embryonic stem cell research, energy, and electro-magnetic pulse (EMP).

Marylanders should be very proud that Nancy Pelosi has become the first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives in our nation’s history.”

Energy

Peak Oil Resolution - Reintroduction of H. Res 507 that expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States, in collaboration with other international allies, should establish an energy project with the magnitude, creativity, and sense of urgency that was incorporated in the ‘‘Man on the Moon’’ project address the inevitable challenges of ‘‘Peak Oil’’.

Energy Farm Bill – Reintroduction of H. R. 5925 to support federal research, development, demonstration, and commercial application activities to enable the development of farms that are net producers of both food and energy.

Expanded Tax Credit for Hybrid Vehicles – Introduced a new bill to increase

from 60,000 to 250,000 the annual limit on vehicles, such as hybrids, eligible for the alternative motor vehicle tax credit.

Stem Cell Research

Congressman Bartlett’s bill H.R. 5526, the Alternative Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapies Enhancement Act. Pluripotent stem cells are cells which can specialize into any bodily tissue, but cannot themselves develop into a human being. The Bartlett bill would accelerate federal research on pluripotent stem cells without harming human embryos. It was the most popular pluripotent stem cell bill -- supported by 100 Senators and 273 House members as well as the President during the 109th Congress. It did not become law because of parliamentary procedures. Under the Rules Package of the new Democratic leadership of the House, no debate and no vote will be permitted about any alternatives when the House votes next week on the reintroduction of H.R. 810, the Castle-DeGette stem cell bill.

Defense and Homeland Security

Improving National Capital Area Homeland Defense – Reintroduction of H.R. 44 to evaluate the definition of the National Capital Region used by the Department of Homeland Security to determine whether the definition should be modified to include additional jurisdictions in the States of Maryland and Virginia along Interstate Routes 270, 95, and 66.

Enhanced and Modernized GI Benefits - Reintroduction of H.R. 3625, the Bartlett Montgomery GI Bill, to encourage servicemembers to re-enlist, support military families and provide more realistic rates of educational costs for higher learning by permitting servicemembers to transfer unused GI education benefits to their spouses or children.

Immigration Reform

American Child Support Enforcement Immigration Act – Reintroduction of H.R. 5977 to deny family classification petitions for new spouses or dependents filed by an individual who owes child support.

Protecting the Health and Life of Pregnant Women and Children

Holly’s Law, the “RU-486 Suspension and Review Act Suspension of RU-486” – Reintroduction of H.R. 1079 to suspend FDA approval of the drug and send it back for review in light of its link to the deaths of five American women and serious injuries to more than 840. If a review finds that the FDA violated its own rules the suspension of RU-486 would be indefinite.

Tax Reform

Move Income Tax Filing Day - Reintroduction of H.R. 442 to move the deadline for filing federal income-tax returns, from April 15 to the first Monday in November —the day before Election Day to strengthen the link between the politicians we elect and the taxes we pay.

Campaign Reform

First Amendment Restoration Act – Reintroduction of H. R. 689, to restore Americans’ First Amendment rights by repealing a provision in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 which prohibits labor unions and corporations (including non-profits) from sponsoring non-PAC-funded broadcast advertisements that include any references to federal candidates during the 30 and 60 days before primary and general elections.

Political Convention Reform Act – Reintroduction of H.R. 45 to prohibit the use of taxpayers’ money for political party conventions.

Second Amendment Rights

Citizens' Self-Defense Act – Reintroduction of H. R. 47 to protect the right of law-abiding citizens to obtain firearms for security, and to use firearms in defense of themselves, family, or their home, and to provide for the enforcement of that right.

Honoring America’s History and Heritage

Washington-Lincoln Recognition Act – Reintroduction of H.R. 43 to direct all federal agencies to refer to the federal holiday on the third Monday in February by its legal name, George Washington's Birthday. The bill also calls on the president to issue a proclamation each year recognizing the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday falls on February 12.

National Trails Discovery Act – Reintroduction of H.R. 690 - to authorize an additional category of national trail known as a national discovery trail, to provide special requirements for the establishment and administration of national discovery trails, and to designate the cross-country American Discovery Trail as the first national discovery trail.

Drug Abuse

Powder-Crack Cocaine Penalty Equalization Act – Reintroduction of H.R. 1501 to equalize the penalties for powder cocaine and crack cocaine offenses.

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Friday, December 29, 2006

20061228 Real Editor seems to have annoyed ScrappleFace Editor


“Real” Editor seems to have annoyed ScrappleFace Editor

ScrappleFace Editor Responds to Real Editor

December 28th, 2006

In what is tantamount to must-read Internet, a “real” editor, from of all places, the Utopian Republic of San Francisco, seems to have attempted to take to task ScrappleFace for a satire piece he wrote, “One Year Later, Some Katrina Victims Still Slow to Respond,” and ScrappleFace drops the palliative vehicle of humor and responds.

The result is a very real and serious manifesto that cuts right to the quick of the matter, for not only the media’s response to Katrina, but much of what is wrong with our country today.

Please find the time to read his entire post: “ScrappleFace Editor Responds to Real Editor.” It is more than worth every minute of your time.

Mr. Scott wrote in his ScrappleFace post:

“In the immediate aftermath of Katrina, journalists sought someone to blame. They, predictably, found President George Bush was the best scapegoat. But in lashing out, yet again, at their favorite source of all discontent, they missed a bigger target. If anyone “out there” is to be blamed, it is the large, remote, centralized federal government which has become a surrogate father to so many millions of Americans.”

[Meanwhile… I wrote several columns about the tragedy of Katrina in The Tentacle:

October 5, 2005 “Kurosawa's History of Hurricane Katrina” American Anthropologist Ernest Albert Hooten once said: "History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened." How will history record Hurricane Katrina?

September 14, 2005 “Katrina – Who Did What and When?” The intemperate criticism directed at the Hurricane Katrina response – the rescue and recover efforts – is more polluted than the floodwaters of New Orleans and contributes nothing to a noble American tradition of coming together at a difficult time and helping fellow Americans in a time of need.

And

September 9, 2005 “Shut up and call the cavalry” Compassion exceeds all else in importance on the Gulf Coast in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy. Only the truly heartless can be left untouched. Our hearts and prayers go out to the victims and the rescuers.]

Mr. Ott begins the post by saying”

“… since ScrappleFace began, my little satirical stories have reached millions of people. Those who read them on the website, for the most part, understand the satirical context. However, thanks to the magic of clip-and-paste, many stories have been ripped from their context and distributed … causing consternation and ill-will in some cases. Normally, the vast editorial staff at ScrappleFace when notified of such offenses, dutifully ignores them, preferring to let the work speak for itself.

We simply continue to ply the trade of creating “fake but accurate” news that we learned in journalism school, and at the feet of Dan Rather and The New York Times.”

With that, he isn’t even warmed-up yet. It gets better.

Apparently, Mary Ratcliff, the editor of the “San Francisco Bay View,” took offense at one of the pieces and has decided to climb upon the soapbox of moral authority and lecture Mr. Ott.

Right from the get-go, one can tell what is coming. Usually such folks – total strangers – in a manifestation of their total disdain for authority and their moral superiority begin with the condescending salutation of addressing you by your first name…

“Dear Scott,

I hope the story you wrote, “One Year Later, Some Katrina Victims Still Slow to Respond“, is satire and is not based on comments actually made by Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. An excerpt from your story had been sent to me, and I forwarded it to this list…”

Usually such folks are total hysterics who feed off the tender morsels of found tidbits of a story and at that - - they draw broad-sweeping, self-adulating conclusions that are inaccurate at best, if not intellectually reprehensible.

The “tender morsels” are then extrapolated to the far reaches of reduction add absurdum.

Witness:

“If your story is satire, please tell that to the people on this list. As you can see, your story has caused them immeasurable pain. Think for a moment how it would feel to be condemned by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the person next in line to become president of the U.S. if something should happen to the president and vice president…”

This priceless. San Francisco representative Nancy Pelosi has not even been coroneted the Speaker of the House and here, in one mere sentence, Ms. Ratcliff has her speaking with the imprimatur of the president. Oy vey.

Having been the CEO of a local government with a larger than average share of morally superior secular progressives in our esteemed constituency; that believes that the job of government is solve every problem known to humankind; I’ve been there and got the t-shirt.

Such folks are insufferable. Usually such precious moments are full of breathless thespian pious pithy protestations and appeals involving, “Do the right thing…;” “it’s for the children;” or “everyone agrees…”

If the performance is in a public setting, usually the local newspaper will ignore 90% of the thoughtful comments and responses of well-intentioned citizens and report upon the small minority of folks who attempted to promote their miss-guided agenda by being unpleasant.

In 2005 I chaired a public meeting in which one of these actors began to launch into a soliloquy only to pause to look around the room and discover that the press was not there. At that point she lamented the lack of the press and fell silent.

It was profound. In other words, if she couldn’t grandstand for the local press, which loves her theatrics and words of wisdom, it was not worth her time to venture an opinion. (And no, insiders should be aware that in this example it was not the “RO Factor.”)

Mr. Scott warms up by writing:

“Your email address indicates you are an editor of something. Part of an editor’s job is to check sources before “going to press.” You clipped and pasted a bit forwarded to you from a satire website and sent it out as if it were something that Rep. Nancy Pelosi said. Now, you have asked me to write to this group of people (on a listserv) who have endured some of the harsh realities of life, that I might somehow atone for the confusion you have caused.”

He then continues later with:

“Over the decades, we have ceded power, authority and responsibility to the federal government far beyond anything envisioned or desired by our founders. As a result, instead relying on our own intelligence, resources and ability to work with others in our communities to solve problems, we have turned to Washington D.C..

This is not a matter of ‘blaming the victim’, because the victim has become so immersed in this twisted view of human life that he cannot see what has happened. The federal government’s dehumanizing effect has torn up neighborhoods, torn apart families and turned brave, capable people into compliant recipients of redistributed wealth.”

Mr. Scott at this point just gets better and better – and better.

Read the entire post here.

I hope Mr. Scott runs for president in 2008.

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