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...They criticised tax cuts enacted by Republican presidents George W Bush and Donald Trump for fuelling a rush of share buybacks rather than higher pay for workers or new investments....
...That is an inherent conflict of interest,” said Richard Painter, a former White House ethics lawyer in the George W Bush administration....
...Headed by Sherrod Brown, a progressive Democrat from Ohio, the committee summoned the bankers for its annual oversight hearing on Wall Street firms....
...Sherrod Brown, the gravelly voiced Democratic senator from Ohio, set the tone. “[Facebook] is like a toddler who has gotten his hands on a book of matches,” he said....
...Tony Fratto, a former senior Treasury official under George W Bush and founder of Hamilton Place Strategies, a consultancy, said critics of existing regulation had ill-defined policy goals....
...Congress should not interfere w/ these negotiations or I will simply terminate Nafta entirely & we will be far better off.”...
...Four of the last seven presidents were governors: George W Bush, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter....
...Speaking of Mr Quarles, Sherrod Brown, a Democratic senator from Ohio, said “many of his statements leading up to the crisis lead me to wonder whether he was asleep at the switch or wilfully turning a blind...
...Mr Powell, a lawyer and former partner at Carlyle, the private equity firm, served in the Treasury under the George H.W. Bush administration....
...Speaking of Mr Quarles, Sherrod Brown, a Democratic senator from Ohio, said “many of his statements leading up to the crisis lead me to wonder whether he was asleep at the switch or willfully turning a blind...
...in the administration of George W Bush, complained that “the delay in the Section 232 investigation into steel imports” was causing a “corresponding surge of steel imports entering the US market”....
...The administration fired Sherrod....
...“The Larry Summers boomlet is now looking like a Larry Summers backlash,” said Tony Fratto of Hamilton Place Strategies, a former adviser to the George W. Bush administration....
...It’s actually a bill neither party supports,” said Tony Fratto, a former US Treasury official under George W. Bush and managing partner at Hamilton Place Strategies, a consultancy....
...Its mission echoes legislation proposed in the Senate in April by Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, and David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, which would set tough new capital requirements for “megabanks”...
...Tony Fratto, a former US Treasury official under George W Bush, now a partner at Hamilton Place Strategies, a consulting group, said the traditional view adopted by the US Treasury had always been that the...
...Mr Obama charted a cautious course on trade in his first term, putting off until the last moment approval for three deals negotiated by the George W....
...Sherrod Brown, the Democratic senator from Ohio, said he had spoken to about half the members of the finance committee about the importance of attaching certain conditions to TPA to secure a “more balanced...
...Tony Fratto, White House spokesman under the George W....
...Sherrod Brown has been feeling optimistic. The gruff-voiced senator from Ohio is trying to push a law through Congress that would put an end to the “too big to fail” problem....
...Mr Fellows is chairman of the Republican party in nearby Lake County, carried by George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004 but which swung to Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election....
...“While China has allowed the [renminbi] to rise minimally, we are still far from equilibrium,” said Sherrod Brown, a Democratic senator from Ohio. “We are past the point of being patient.”...
...Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Sherrod Brown of Ohio also were opposed, as well as Bernie Sanders the independent from Vermont, who mounted a long filibuster of the deal on Friday....
...But, carrying a placard saying “More Jobs, Less Spending” and wearing a baseball cap declaring “Jesus is My Boss”, he attended a rally this week to cheer on the senatorial bid of George W....
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