1 Congress is gearing up for a fight over the Bush proposal that could last into next year.
(1) Congress should legislate, as it has in other areas of commerce, that there can be no class actions by bondholders against fiduciaries who in good faith modify loans for the purpose of foreclosure prevention.
4 p.m. 1) CONGRESS WITH NIEMEYER Start in the heart of the "Pilot Plan," the original planned city, where three Niemeyer-designed buildings house the three branches of Brazilian government around Praça dos Três Poderes (Three Powers Square).
Reuters reports: Investors are worried about two looming Washington deadlines: before Oct. 1 Congress needs to pass stop-gap funding for federal agencies and by Oct. 17 it must raise the federal borrowing limit to avoid a debt default by the United States.
Browner 1, Congress 0. If EPA's new standards survive congressional and legal challenges, state and local governments will have to devise elaborate State Implementation Plans, or SIPs, detailing their strategies for complying with the agency's latest regulatory diktat.
An even more detailed version of this can be found in another free chapter of my book, Chapter 1: Congress and the Bible.
