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*Sen.
Kaufman Discusses Goldman Hearing on CNN*

*Sen. Kaufman,
a
member of
the
Senate Investigations Subcommittee, **appeared on CNN on Tuesday,
April 27, to discuss the panels questioning of Goldman Sachs
executives.* *Watch HERE [link 1].*

*Watch Sen. Kaufman discuss the Goldman
Sachs fraud hearing as well as the state of the Wall Street reform
bill in
the Senate:*

*Tuesday, April 27: 8:15 p.m. on MSNBCs
"Countdown with Keith Olbermann"*

* Wednesday, April 28: 1:30 p.m. on FOX
Business
Network and **3:25 p.m. on MSNBC*


*Sen. Kaufmans
Fight For Wall Street Reform:*

Last week, Sen. Ted Kaufman, along
with Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, announced the *SAFE Banking Act of
2010*, new legislation that would place reasonable caps on the size and
leverage of the nations behemoth financial institutions.


Their
efforts were quickly touted by the media as the most purely
Jeffersonian piece of legislation that Congress has seen in decades (Washington
Post, April 24 [link 2]) and well crafted (The Nation, April 26
[link 3]).


In
an April
23 ABC News piece, titled "The Most
Important Person Youve Never Heard of in Washingtons Push to Reform
Wall Street" [link 4], Matthew Jaffe writes, "The man who served
more
than two decades as a top aide to Vice President Joe Biden -- and
was
his hand-picked choice to take over the Senate seat he vacated --
is
very much his own man on the issue of the moment." Read the full story
HERE [link 5].


Other press on Sen. Kaufman and the *SAFE
Banking Act*:

In an April 27 Washington Post article [link 6] Sen.
Kaufman told reporter Perry Bacon : "What do we have to do before someone
sends the message that these things are too big and that this Congress
cannot pass the buck to the regulators who didnt do the job in the
past?" he said. "What are we doing now as senators on the floor,
passing legislation based on the fact I trust my regulators now? Why
arent we passing legislation that will work over the next two or three
generations?" Read the full article HERE [link 7].


In an April 23
Bloomberg Business Week article [link 8] by MIT professor and
co-author of *13 Bankers,* Simon Johnson notes: "Now Kaufman is the man of
the moment, having laid out a convincing path to a far-reaching
financial overhaul. ... Kaufmans point is simple and powerful. When corporate
interests get out of control and start to hurt society, we typically
deal with the issue in a constructive manner -- breaking up oversized
companies, such as AT&T Corp., and regulating activities that are
manifestly dangerous to society, as was done with banking from the 1930s."
Read the full article HERE [link 9].


In Frank Richs April 24
New York Times column [link 10], he writes, "Perhaps the most
productive tactic comes from Ted Kaufman, Democrat of Delaware, who is using
his lame-duck residence in the Senate (as the appointee to Joe Bidens
old seat) to demand that we root out the fraud and potential
criminal conduct that were at the heart of the financial crisis." Read the
full column HERE [link
11].


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footnotes
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[link 1]
http://kaufman.senate.gov/press/video_audio/video_player.cfm?m=4093ec8e-5056-9502-5d42-6444bbaa52e1
[link 2]
http://kaufman.senate.gov/press/in_the_news/news/?id=3ad88c1e-5056-9502-5d56-b210f134bf4e
[link 3]
http://kaufman.senate.gov/press/in_the_news/news/?id=3bb0a1ce-5056-9502-5dbe-656d505ed6c4
[link 4]
http://kaufman.senate.gov/press/in_the_news/news/?id=3aded57e-5056-9502-5d95-9f9ff71001c4
[link 5]
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Business/sen-ted-kaufman-important-person-heard-washingtons-push/story?id=10425615
[link 6]
http://kaufman.senate.gov/press/in_the_news/news/?id=3fbbfec8-5056-9502-5d1b-7d2e05d2346c
[link 7]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/26/AR2010042603795.html
[link 8]
http://kaufman.senate.gov/press/in_the_news/news/?id=3ab5cb25-5056-9502-5d82-46617d89a371
[link 9]
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-22/big-bank-breakup-time-gets-boost-from-goldman-simon-johnson.html
[link 10]
http://kaufman.senate.gov/press/in_the_news/news/?id=3ada18c9-5056-9502-5d15-4fe57c619672
[link 11]
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/opinion/25rich.html?dbk


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