Barney Frank listed as Representative A in some places but

Barney Frank listed as Representative A in some places but as Barney Frank in others happened before the meeting she set up for the minority bank association with Treasury. In the conversation, listed on page 23, Waters tells Frank she s worried about a potential conflict of interest. Actually, according to testimony by her chief of staff on page 44, the Frank/Waters conversation happened after the Treasury meeting.
Once she learned that the number of banks that were possibly over extended in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had narrowed to OneUnited and another bank, Waters saw a potential conflict and asked Frank to look into the matter since it also involved a Boston bank, a Waters aide said.I asked Frank s office and they said he doesn t remember the precise timing but that this scenario is plausible.
If true, this timeline would significantly alter at least the perception of the charges against Waters since no one yet knows exactly what the charges are. It goes from a member worrying about an indiscretion and then doing it to a member acting in seeming good faith and when realizing the potential for an indiscretion moving to avoid it.




Details on Baucus’s New Mark

The only Democrats in their seats when the Senate Finance Committee reconvened after lunch to return to the markup of the body s health reform bill were Chairman Max Baucus and Jay Rockefeller. The latter had to be back on time to give his opening statement. Over the break, journalists, including me, were digging through the revised mark Baucus released today. (The new mark will still be subject to amendments, but this is the framework the committee is starting with.)
It s clear Baucus heard some of the criticisms of original version and adjusted the mark accordingly. (He didn t renault can clip react to Democrats pushing for a public option. The state-based tech 2 scan tool non-profit cooperatives are still the only alternative to private insurance in the bill.) But a good number of other amendments filed late last week are incorporated into the revised version.