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March 8, 2009 - View appropriations requests here
Appropriations applications for the first Citizens Oversight Panel meeting on March 13 can be found by clicking here.

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March 6, 2009 - Speier convenes citizens panel to vet funding requests
Congresswoman Jackie Speier has asked a prestigious panel of business, labor, community and government leaders to review all requests for funding received by her office for fiscal year 2010. The Citizens Oversight Panel will meet this month in public forums to review applications and hear from applicants before making recommendations to the congresswoman.           Long a critic of the federal earmarking process, Speier has not requested any special funding in her ten months in office, instead choosing to study ways to “take the politics out of the appropriations process.”           Chairing the panel is Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig. He is ...continue reading »
March 5, 2009 - Breaking down the president's mortgage plan
Washington, DC – The mortgage assistance plan unveiled by Treasury Secretary Geithner on March 4 is good news for the 12th Congressional District.  Some may find that they do not qualify, but the program is sure to help a great number of honest, hard-working homeowners who have found themselves caught in a cyclone of falling property values, tightened credit and less job security.

Last week, in anticipation of the president’s mortgage-plan, I introduced an amendment to a housing bill to make sure that residents of high-cost areas like San Francisco and San Mateo County could participate in the loan ...continue reading »

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Why this recession is different

Americans have experienced recessions before and, one way or another, we have found a path out of them.  With bold, decisive action and disciplined accounting to make sure that taxpayer money isn't squandered, I have faith that we will...(more)
Posted on: 02-11-2009