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    Amanda Terkel

    Amanda Terkel

    Washington Bureau Chief, HuffPost

  • Joe Biden Backs Impeachment If Trump Refuses To Cooperate With Congress

    His announcement underscores the tremendous shift the Democratic Party has taken in the last week.

  • Elizabeth Warren Ramps Up Campaign With 8-Figure Ad Buy

    The 2020 Democratic candidate also is hiring more organizers in states that vote in March, including on the all-important Super Tuesday.

  • Releasing The Ukraine Transcript Isn't Enough. Where's The Whistleblower Complaint?

    During the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon tried to release transcripts instead of audiotapes — and the courts struck him down.

  • Chamber Of Commerce CEO Made Record Amount In 2010

    Tom Donohue, the president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, made a record $4.7 million last year, at a time when the rest of the country was seeing high unemployment and falling wages. Donohue's pay package included a $3.6 million bonus. Donohue's compensation was revealed in the Chamber's 990 tax forms, which became publicly available this week.

  • Chamber Of Commerce's Lobbying To Extend Bush Tax Cuts Would Reap Millions For Wealthy Backers

    The labor-backed advocacy group U.S. Chamber Watch is taking aim at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in a new report, arguing that the industry group's aggressive lobbying effort to extend the Bush tax cuts is less about creating jobs for businesses and more about lining the pockets of wealthy corporate CEOs who would personally gain from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars.

  • Warren Buffett: I 'Should Be Paying A Lot More In Taxes'

    Billionaire Warren Buffett rebutted claims that the Obama administration is unjustly hurting business orders with high taxes by saying that in fact, the wealthy have never had it so good. "I think that people at the high end, people like myself, should be paying a lot more in taxes.

  • GOP Lawmakers Stay Silent On Foreclosure Moratorium

    The number of lawmakers calling for investigations or a freeze on foreclosures is growing, in the wake of an increasing amount of evidence pointing to faulty proceedings. At issue are people known as "robo-signers" -- bank employees who signed off on thousands of foreclosure affidavits without evaluating their merits or even laying eyes on them. Bank of America, the largest in the nation, has suspended foreclosures in all 50 states in the course of an internal review of the matter, while firms including JPMorgan Chase have suspended foreclosures in certain states.

  • WATCH: Michigan Candidate Backs Foreclosure Moratorium

    Michigan's gubernatorial candidates faced off in their one and only debate of the election on Sunday, spending much of their time discussing how to get the state's struggling economy back on its feet. The candidates were challenged on the possibility of a statewide moratorium on mortgage foreclosures, in light of recent revelations that banks have used bogus affidavits to take people's homes away. Bank of America recently announced that it was halting foreclosures in all 50 states to investigate whether mortgage servicers signed foreclosure documents without reading them.