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Listed below are comments made by RealFrigid between Friday, 19th September 2008 and Sunday, 21st September 2008.

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• Hagel questions Palin's experience 8:12pm on 21 Sep 2008 test
• Hagel questions Palin's experience 7:36pm on 21 Sep 2008 760, AndreainNY :
  
  Because Andrea, "Choice" stops at birth. After choosing to have a child and not killing it in the womb, the parents lose the rights to raise or teach the child. You know, it takes a village to raise a child. In fact, only "the village" will be allowed to raise your child.
  
  Who is Number 1?
  
  "…We all live in a little Village… Your village may be different from other people's villages but we are all prisoners." -- Patrick McGoohan
• Hagel questions Palin's experience 5:37pm on 21 Sep 2008 812, Ed Iglehart:
  
  "It seems that, apart from the initial privatisation of Fannie Mae, all significant regulation and de-regulation of Freddie and Fannie took place during Republican Presidencies, but with Democratic House until 1994, and varying Senate control - loads of dirty hands..."
  
  My impression was that Freddie and Fannie have grown far too large, and due to a mix of deregulation and some regulation have remained tied to government and poor government oversight. We could probably look at the legislation crafted in 1968 to see the desire to separate them, yet still maintain some government fingers in the pie.
  
  There is an inherent conflict of interest to accept any campaign money from any entity so closely tied to government oversight. Legislation needs to come from the relevant House and Senate committee, and it appears that both Republicans and Democrats over the years have been tainted with excessive campaign donations.
  
  I see this as the worst of two worlds, a company running as "for profit" with greedy CEO compensation packages and government rather than corporate oversight.
  
  The appropriate thing for the government to do now would be to break Freddie and Fannie into about a dozen or so smaller agencies and then convert them into entirely private sector security companies. These smaller companies should be answerable to their stockholders and the SEC, like any other corporation. Mergers should be highly scrutinized, just as with the baby Bell breakup.
• Hagel questions Palin's experience 5:21pm on 21 Sep 2008 More grist for the mill; S. 1100: Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2007 was introduced to the committee in April 2007, and was sponsored by Chuck Hagel(R), and co-sponsored by Elizabeth Dole(R), Mel Martinez(R), and John Sununu(R).
  
  Resulted from the House bill, H.R. 1427: Federal Housing Finance Reform Act of 2007
  

  Requires the Director to review annually the Freddie Mac Foundation and the Office of Corporate Giving of the Federal National Mortgage Corporation ("Fannie Mae Foundation") to ensure that they are not engaged in impermissible lobbying activities.

• Hagel questions Palin's experience 4:41pm on 21 Sep 2008 One more link...
  
  Richard Baker's questioning of Freddie and Fannie go back to 2000.
  
  

  But beyond the competitive tussle, there is a far-reaching public policy issue: whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have grown so big and deeply entrenched in the nation's financial system that their ill-defined relationship with the federal government poses the risk of a taxpayer bailout if they were to run into financial trouble.

  
  
  Prophetic!
• Hagel questions Palin's experience 4:30pm on 21 Sep 2008 Starting in April, 2001, Rep. Richard Baker had a mission to reform Freddie and Fannie.
  
  H.R. 1409 [107th]: Secondary Mortgage Market Enterprises Regulatory Improvement Act
  
  It was killed in committee.
  
  He tried again in the next Congress, House Bill was, H.R. 2575 [108th]: Secondary Mortgage Market Enterprises Regulatory Improvement Act. Sponsored again by Republican Rep. Richard Baker of Louisiana, and cosponsored by 22 Republicans and 1 Democrat (Rep. David Scott of Georgia). It never seemed to make it out of committee.
  
  Then in the 109th Congress, Rep. Richard Baker tried again and introduced H.R. 1461 [109th]: Federal Housing Finance Reform Act of 2005, which passed the house (Passed 331-90, with 12 not voting) on Oct 26, 2005.
  
  It never emerged from the Senate conference. The last action noted was; "Oct 31, 2005: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs."
  
  The Senate Committee had hearings on Freddie and Fannie oversight in May 2001.
  
  It looks like what eventually emerged was a six point voluntary compliance plan.
  
  1. Publicly disclose our independent rating.
  2. Maintain a high degree of liquidity.
  3. Issue subordinated debt on a semiannual basis.
  4. Implement a risk-based capital stress test on an interim basis.
  5. Publicly disclose a forward-looking measure of credit risk every quarter.
  6. Publicly disclose interest-rate risk every month.
  
  The mood of which was best summarized at the end of that link with a letter subnmitted by then Chairman of Freddie Mac, Leland C. Brendsel.
  

  Freddie Mac's strength and vitality ensure that we are able to meet the housing finance needs of the future. Our superior risk management capabilities, strong capital position and state-of-the-art information disclosure make Freddie Mac unquestionably a safe and sound financial institution. The six commitments demonstrate our determination to stay that way, so that we can finance housing for generations to come.

  ... and I have some quality beach front property near Galveston I'd like to sell you...
  
  More about Leland Brendsel and Franklin Raines, in 2004...
  
  Scandal to Cost Ex-Fannie Mae Officers Millions
  NYT -- U.S. Moves to Deny Benefits to 2 Ex-Freddie Mac Officials
  
  The foxes are watching the chicken coops. It appears that Freddie and Fannie campaign donations bought Senate silence.
• Hagel questions Palin's experience 5:27pm on 19 Sep 2008 From the Iowa Tribune, July 17th, 2008;
  McCain praises Hagel in first trip to Nebraska
  
  I wonder how John McCain feels about Chuck Hagel today.
• Hagel questions Palin's experience 5:11pm on 19 Sep 2008 I think Republican Nebraskans feel Hagel is being a bit disloyal to his party, even though many agree with his positions.
  
  Nebraska's Hagel Faces Political War at Home
  
  
• Hagel questions Palin's experience 4:47pm on 19 Sep 2008 For those who like to post many URL's
  
  <a href="http://someurl">Some descriptive text</a>
  
  is the way to type in a hyper-link.
• Hagel questions Palin's experience 4:25pm on 19 Sep 2008 #286, David_de_Jong:
  
  There are many, many shareholder lawsuits.

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