Digesting the Bailout Baloney

Digesting the Bailout Baloney

Inside five bizarre provisions in the bailout bill.

Posted Friday, October 3, 2008 - 11:23am

Who put it in? According to the Office of American Samoa Governor Togiola T.A. Tulafono, American Samoa's nonvoting representative, Eni Faleomavaega, was involved in supporting this provision. Faleomavaega's office had not returned a call from The Big Money seeking comment by Thursday night.

How much will it cost? $33 million over 10 years.

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Line Item Veto

This seems like the penultimate argument for giving presidents a line item veto.

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