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- Subject: _Public Citizen's_ Report: Congress Watch: S&L Scandal
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- _Public Citizen's_ Report: Congress Watch: S&L Scandal
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- "Working with Rep. Joseph Kennedy (D-MA) and the Financial
- Democracy Campaign, a coalition of labor, community, religious,
- and housing groups, Public Citizen lobbied Congress to shift the
- burden of the bailout onto corporations and the wealthy.
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- "And, in the closing hours of the 1990 legislative session,
- Congress Watch blew the whistle on a little-publicized effort by
- the Bush Administration to sneak an additional $57 billion bailout
- through Congress without any reforms to assure fairness.
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- Savings and loan scandal.
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- The federal bailout of failed S&Ls, whose costs are estimated at
- between $500 billion and $1.4 trillion over 40 years, stands as the
- chief symbol of 1980s-style reckless deregulation and political
- corruption. Across the country, citizens are angry about bearing the
- burden of this scandal, and the New York Times identified Congress
- Watch as playing the leading role in mobilizing citizens against
- unfairly allocating the cost of the bailout.
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- Working with Rep. Joseph Kennedy (D-MA) and the Financial Democracy
- Campaign, a coalition of labor, community, religious, and housing
- groups, Public Citizen lobbied Congress to shift the burden of the
- bailout onto corporations and the wealthy. And, in the closing hours
- of the 1990 legislative session, Congress Watch blew the whistle on a
- little-publicized effort by the Bush Administration to sneak an
- additional $57 billion bailout through Congress without any reforms to
- assure fairness.
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- In October, Random House published _Who Robbed America? A
- Citizens' Guide to the S&L Scandal_, written by the director and staff
- of Congress Watch. A plain English handbook, the volume included an
- appendix spelling out financial industry PAC contributions to each
- member of Congress -- and how they voted on key S&L issues.
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