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The committee members banks, ausgefeiltesten legislation now before Congress for aiding the savings and loan, the industry has received nearly $ 3.5 million in 1985 and 1986, action committees policy, with direct participation of legislation, a new study shows.

The committee members banks, ausgefeiltesten legislation now before Congress for aiding the savings and loan, the industry has received nearly $ 3.5 million in 1985 and 1986, action committees policy, with direct participation of legislation, a new study shows.

The study will be published this week by the newsletter’s PAC & lobby, shows that the political groups have contributed $ 2.9 million to 39 banks Committee members in the house and five in the Senate, again won the elections Over the last year.

The groups also have $ 534629 in campaigns of four new senators elected, the study said, adding that a large portion of the money contributed by Senators won und”ihre tasks to the banking commission was a possibility. “The senators, all those on behalf of the Committee, Terry Sanford of North Carolina, Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, Bob Graham of Florida, all Democrats, and Christopher S. Bond of Missouri, a Republican.

Today, the house version of its banking system, which inject $ 10.8 billion in cash Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation, whose funds are almost exhausted by the loss of savings and credit clubs in throughout the country. Many losses resulting from loans for defaults in the fields of energy and agriculture, both have suffered serious economic problems in recent years. The Senate is expected, the approval of the action Tuesday. # 361 Political Action Committees”Es is interesting to note that human beings, wrote this law has received $ 3.5 million, will have to live with this law,’’said Ed Zuckerman, editor of the newsletter Information, led the study.

Mr. Zuckerman, said most of the political groups there was money to the legislator supports the bill. Some groups against the legislation, he said, while others membership is divided. The lautstärksten opponents, representatives of nonbanking companies in the banking business, gave $ 385689 to banks as members.

In total, 361 PAC’s sponsored by businesses or trade associations in commercial banks, savings and loan industry, insurance, securities and non-banking investment bankers have helped members of the panel . At the head of the study is a list of the American Bankers Association, whose political committee contributed $ 235454, among the banks, Citicorp’s, most PAC, $ 96427th

”What a pity, because it may be too we recognize that money plays a very important role in campaigns these days,’’said G. Kirk Willison, a spokesman for the Association of Bankers.

”We believe that the legislation be passed are finally passed its merits, not on contributions,”he said. ”But it is very, very expensive to run, and we want to show that the banks of a grassroots movement have an interest in this happening.”Recipients of contributions

The study shows that Senator Alan Cranston, Democrat of California, received $ 240150 in commissions, more than any other candidate. But Mr. Cranston get more money in the 1986 elections, as most other candidates, including $ 1.4 million in total PAC contributions, because it was locked in a little race in one of the largest states .

It was followed by Mr. Bond, received $ 225800 from the banking business-PAC’s. Senator Jake Garn, Republican of Utah and ranking minority member of the Banking Commission, has received $ 203925, and Senator Alfonse D’Amato, M., a New York Republican, received $ 198233. Senator William Proxmire, Democrat of Wisconsin and chairman of the panel banks not to accept money from political action committees.

In the house, representatives of Fernand J. St Germain, Rhode Island Democrat, is chairman of the Banking Committee, collected $ 214452 from political groups. It was followed by George C. Wortley representative, Republican from New York City, has received $ 103926.

Looking for an objective longer on the health of the Federal Republic funds, bank deposits assured the Chief of General Accounting Office, said today that during the Fund was technically impossible to insolvency, but before payments in the years to come, in which a real standard ”” accounting is being depleted of its balance.

No”because she was born on the territory of the Great Depression, the federal system of security deposits for commercial banks, where such a deadline for placing at risk, as it works today,’’said Mr. Bowsher in a speech before the Senate Banking Committee.

He added dass”nach Generally Accepted Accounting Principles”hatte a compensation fund during the last year. But”if we had a more realistic standard that everybody here was the measure of things, we’re not quite sure .”” He said several billion would be reserved as Dollar”wahrscheinlich debts to the Fund during the past year.

William L. Seidman, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which holds the nation on deposits from banks, the figures presented by Mr. Bowsher was in general, with whom he had last month when he said that the Fund could lose a lot of 2 billion dollars this year. In an interview after the consultation, “said The figures Seidman GAO has cast a glance at vermutenden without taking account of income fund would be on the sale of assets in other institutions and higher premiums.

”I have said before and I say again, the Fund is able to fulfil its commitment,”he added. The Agency, the Bank Insurance Fund accounts insured up to $ 100000

Analyses generally accepted, said Mr Seidman. Seidman”peinture is a grim picture of the situation and the GAO says it is a little dark,’’said Robert E. Litan of the Brookings Institution. Do I il”de slight differences, but they are actually the same.”

Mr. Bowsher’s testimony raised the strong possibility that without government measures for the money quickly, premiums increase or decrease the protection of insurance, banking sector problems could have a repetition of the fate of savings and Loan Industry. A specific fund insurance savings deposits in institutions has already been exhausted, a force of government relief by the most conservative of estimates, it is expected that costs taxpayers at least $ 130 billion over the next 30 years, including interest not.

Geplagt debt danger

Banks have more and more of their income from interest on loans, but the decline in real estate markets across the country and demand now in danger of plague institutions. During recent months, the banks cover losses has grown steadily and reached 11.2 per cent at end-June from 10.1 percent last year.

The General Accounting Office today also criticized an alarm on the high level of bank loans in the past two years to hoch””Leveraged transactions, such as acquisitions and leveraged buyouts, which are often financed by debt high risk. In their study, the Bureau said that seven of the nation’s 10 largest banks had a significant number of these loans and that these institutions could see his fortune for the most part the decline in case of bankruptcy of a large lever companies with bank loans.

Last month, Mr. Seidman said he expected the continued decline in real estate markets and around record number of losses the bank would be the third successive annual loss of the Bank Insurance Fund.

The proposed increase in premiums

In a reaction to the slide which F.D.I.C. a proposed increase in premiums to pay, as banks under insurance of $ 1.1 billion, or 30 percent, next year. A final vote by the Agency, the five-committee is planned for later this month. The increase would pay the banks, 19.5 cents an insurance premums for each $ 100 of insured deposits, rather than the 15 cents expected in effect in January. It is currently 12 cents for every $ 100 of insured deposits.

While the proposed increase is the maximum allowed under the savings and loan bailout legislation passed last year, she said Bowsher still too small a margin of safety for the survival of funds. ”We are convinced that this is not enough, the Bank is considering the situation,”he said, adding that the GAO are not yet defined what constitutes an amount sufficient to ensure the safety of funds n is not excessive taxation Banks.

”I ask the word crisis, but we are in a phase where the action is necessary in due course,’’said Bowsher.

Consonant alarm senators

Members of the Senate committee GAO expressed alarm on the findings, several Congress propose, either immediately or place in October, returning after the November elections beginning to the solution of the problem. ”It seems to me that you say here, if the sky does not fall, it is implacable,”Senator Richard C. Shelby, Democrat of Alabama, said Bowsher.

A state sells its discs driving licence to an Stalker, he chooses his victims - Hollywood Starlet - photos and killing him.

A telephone company sells a call list, an extortionist analyzed models Appeal and blackmail, owners of the phone.

A hospital records of transfers of patients from a subsidiary of insurance, alternately by a policy of renewal.

A bank sells a statement on financial disclosure of the borrower an employer, fires, employees of profligacy.

An Internet browser from the sale of discs a Nettie seeking a lawyer for the detective,”uses cookie”generated evidence against the Nettie in the proceedings.

Such violations of privacy are not go further. The first above, the murder of Rebecca Schaeffer, led to the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act. Federal law allows motorists to the opt-out””of direct insurance other than the information not be sold for commercial purposes.

But the opt-out, the burden of protection on potential victims, and most people are too busy or lazy to initiate self-protection. Would more effective as privacy advocates call “opt-in - Obligation of the State or business-to-request authorization for each customer before selling their names on practitioners der”zielgerichtetes marketing.”

In practical terms, is the difference between the opt-in and opt-out is the difference between a closed door with a screw and a door left ajar. But from the same appellate court - under “strained the freedom of commercial expression - the telecommunications giant U.S. West intrusive won. Its private clients and the public are the losers.

Mergers of companies and technologies of e-commerce and electronic surveillance are pulverizing the walls of privacy. Later, Americans are awakening to their new objectives of the nudity as distributors.

Your bank account, your health record, your genetic code, your personal shopping habits and sexual interests are your own business. This information has a value. If someone wants to pay for an intimate insight into your life, do you made an offer and you think. It is opt in, it may decide to trade with the desired information about themselves to services such as E-Mail-Box or stock quotes or other incentives. But they need, ask first.

We are dealing here with a political problem sleeper. People are always wise to be studied and manipulated in secret and rectify the wrong path.

The politicians feel that a strange dissonance is disturbing their components. But most are leery the question, because there are reductions in ideologies and parties - and not only vis-à-vis national security encrypted communication, but also personal freedom vis-à-vis the free market.

That is why there was such Sturm und Drang that the Financial Services Act of 1999. Most pols think that only the spirit, because the turf war between the government and the Fund of the Fed about the rule of the new bank brokerage insurance mergers. It is deeper.

Parliament passed a law 343 from 86 to machen””Vorwand make use of spies, as the customer a federal crime, plus an opt-out””, the financial burden of the bank to tell Banks their clients not to reveal information on SEM. The Bank has been accompanied by the lobby.

The Senate passed a version without the protection of privacy, because the bank president Phil Gramm said. But the Senate House conference, Republican Richard Shelby of Alabama (already in driver protection on the orders of Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum and the ACLU) urged the House version. ” ‘Opt-out “is low, Shelby tells me”,” but it is a start.”

Groundswelling Resentment is seeking a public service Champion. The departure is gaining momentum, while some presidential candidate takes the issue of sleeper related to consumers. The laws are not always the answer: for the regulation, smart companies competing for the right of customers to decide.

Libertaire The principle is simple: with the exception of the legitimate needs of criminal prosecution authorities and the public interest, control of information remains one must be with the person himself. If permission is sought, it can sell or trade or - or say, the bank, the search engine and automotive, Bureau to keep his mouth closed.

The Supreme Court today to decide whether a jury award of punitive damages may be excessive or disproportionate, as a violation of the Constitution is the guarantor of a trial of law.

The Supreme Court today to decide whether a jury award of punitive damages may be excessive or disproportionate, as a violation of the Constitution is the guarantor of a trial of law.

The justices accepted an appeal from California, a life insurance policy of $ 1.04 million judgement by a jury in Alabama. The complainant was a woman, has learned that after she was in hospital with a kidney infection, that the policy on which it had paid premiums has been cancelled. It remained without coverage to $ 3800 medical bills, more than half its annual budget to pay $ 6700

If the Constitution place if any, limits punitive damages “is a matter of great concern on the insurance sector and producers, which often product liability, adjusted. While people are also liable for punitive damages, most of these complaints against companies that””, deep pockets can afford to bear the increasing number of several judgments dollars.

Punitive damages, unlike damages, to punish or an example that helps determine the behavior similar in the future. Each state has its own laws and procedures for awarding punitive damages. In response to the pressures of the insurance industry and other business groups, development of national legislators in recent years has been in place limits on the size of punitive damage awards in some cases.

Browning Ferris-case cited

In a number of decisions from 1986, the Supreme Court skirted the question of whether the constitutional concept to a trial requires that punitive damages bear some regard to actual damages, or at least that the jury that certain acts rules.

Last June, for example, the Court held, a complaint of Browning-Ferris Industries Inc., a large commercial vehicle waste, which was commissioned in a case of agreements to pay $ 6 million in punitive damages to a competitor, he suffered a $ 51,000 economic damages. The Court rejected the argument of Browning-Ferris that Strafaktion against damage, the eighth amendment, which Geldbußen””und”grausame and little excessive penalties.”

The majority decided that procedural reasons, the question of whether punitive damages are limited by the Constitution to guarantee a fair trial was not properly in the case of Browning-Ferris.

But in convergent rating, four Justices indicated that it wishes to decide the question of the organization of files. The four Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, William J. Brennan, Jr. and Thurgood Marshall, specified considerable sympathy with the argument that unlimited punitive damages are unconstitutional.

Alabama High Court judgement

The Court accepts the case today, Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Haslip, No. 89-1279, is an appeal against a ruling by the Supreme Court of Alabama, the rejection of the company assurance’s due process arguments.

The company, headquartered in California, the group does not sell health insurance. But an official in his office in Birmingham, Lemmie L. Ruffin Jr., also worked as an independent mediator for a health insurance fund. In 1981, he asked shops in the city of Roosevelt, a small town near Birmingham, Ala., and the issue of political life and health insurance for its employees.

He collected the premiums, some of which employees paid in cash. But employees do not know that it is not forward premiums to insurance companies. He kept the money himself, not to say that the city of its policy were overdue and, later, that the policy was cancelled.

The situation has emerged during the year 1982, if an employee, Cleopatra Haslip, was hospitalized and was told they have no health insurance. She remained with the accounts could not pay enough. As a result of the action and three other employees mutual against the Pacific, refilling station of fraud, breach of contract and bad faith, their credit rating was destroyed, and she suffered psychological torment.

The jury awarded Ms. Haslip $ 1.04 million, without giving part of the award was punitive damages and has been designed for the compensation of Ms. Haslip’s psychological torment.

Arguments insurers

In its complaint to the Supreme Court, Pacific Mutual contends that the jury awarded the unlimited power Juroren’’selektiv allows punitive damages to bestrafen”und”zu frönen bias, prejudice and eventual redistribution of wealth passions it can have. ” ‘

The company also provides strict argument that an employer should not be held liable for punitive damages under the misconduct by an employee. If Pacific Mutual prevails in this matter, the Court can not find it necessary to ensure the widest possible punitive damages. The case is argued next fall. Today, the Court also denied four separate procedures Appeals to decide whether people can bring injured accident car manufacturer for the installation of an airbag. These costumes were the laws of the State to admit that negligence suits für”Design error.

The Senate has threatened the White House and the Mexican government, and today by an overwhelming majority in support of efforts to strict safety standards for Mexican trucks U.S. efforts to get roads.

The 70 by-30 procedural error arrested a vote Republican-led efforts to use parliamentary tactics to kill the measure that is the subject of Mexican truck companies to a variety of inspection and insurance required before their vehicles could, in the USA.

The Bush administration wants the border open for long-haul flights from January Mexican trucks in what the White House has also called for making Open commitments of the limit of eight years, North American Free Trade Agreement, and as that part of a campaign aimed at improving the De trade and diplomatic relations with Mexico.

The margin of vote of the Senate, with 19 candidates for accession by all Republicans 50 Democrats and one independent, suggested that the wind is under study on President Bush’s Office this year.

Mr. Bush has promised to block the plan, even if it means a veto of the Senate, 60 billion dollars in transportation expenses, that the provision. The White House and the Mexican government have the determination, as a clear violation of the trade agreement opened the USA reprisals.

The Parliament adopted a version of the bill this summer, a total ban on the Mexican Constitution outside a truck 20 miles from the commercial zone along the border. Congressional officials say that the version of the Senate measure is expected to account, which is, finally, by both chambers of Congress.

The Senate plan proposes circular-trial inspections of Mexican trucks to the Mexican border and require shippers to obtain insurance with insurers license to operate the USA. The controls were generally more intense than trucks required by the Canadian border.

Supporters of the restrictions cite studies showing that Mexican trucks are much more frequently than their American counterparts to fail security checks and basic drivers of Mexican trucks are often overloaded and could be a danger to Americans on the road . The plan has also been stressed by the unions, including Teamsters, representing the drivers.

To stop the alarm is composed of members of Congress said the agriculture and agriculture lobbyists, Mexican officials have said in recent weeks, that Mexico would be the limitation of U.S. agricultural imports, when the truck is rightly test.

Republicans appear to see the possibility for the establishment of support for Hispanic voters if the plan, finally, by Congress and President Bush gets the opportunity to veto.

The Senate Republican leader, Trent Lott of Mississippi, the bill als”Anti-mexikanischen”und”Anti-Hispanic.”

Bush said the Mexican industry should not be treated differently than industries in the USA or Canada, Mexico, both partners in trade agreements.

Our colleagues Mexican”frankly, should be treated just as Canadians are treated,”he said in the Oval Office. ”We must accept the fact that the spirit of NAFTA.”

The subject has an unusual alliance between President Bush and Republican Senator, is its most frequently Nemesis, Arizona John McCain.

Mr. McCain efforts to kill test, it was wrong to say to safety standards for Mexican trucks to the USA, which is not based on Canadian trucks. He had previously leased verwenden””verlängert debate to block action - a diplomatic way to describe a risk Filibuster - but the threat was arrested by today’s vote procedural matters.

Despite intense lobbying efforts in the White House this week in the Senate, traditionally rather than the house of support for free trade, many Republicans have said they voted Democrat Mexican truck is a risk on U.S. routes .

”This is not a partisan issue,’’said Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, is the Republican agenda in the centre of the Subcommittee on Transportation drafting the bill.

The sales volume of open spaces at the New York Stock Exchange has increased its highest level since March, the “Big Board reported yesterday.

The exchange said that 726.6 million shares were sold shortly and is not covered, since the trade, August 15, reflects the market by August 8 This was an increase of 16, 9 million shares or 2.4 percent, from Mount precedent.

The figure was the highest since 732.7 million shares were briefly detained in mid-March, but it is much lower than the record level of 855.8 million shares in mid-December.

The figures show a sharp increase in short-circuit the insurance company of certain stocks, including those of businesses and travellers Aetna Life and Casualty. In the recent period, there were serious financial problems about advertising in the field of life insurance. 48% of the increase in positions in Solomons

The timing of the creation of the table was a day before the disclosure of the scandal of trade at Salomon Brothers, which led to a sharp decline in the share price of Salomon Inc. There has been an increase of 48 per cent in the short position Salomon shares, but the level was relatively low, 381457th

The American Stock Exchange has registered an increase of smaller spaces past sales, which represents an increase of 163957 shares, or two-tenths of 1 percent to 76.7 million shares.

In a short sale, an investor, betting that an inventory, the price will decline, sells borrowed stock in anticipation of buying back later at a lower price. The number of actions in which a short position is still in possession of investors is in all our exchanges, and by the National Association of Securities Dealers, the end of the reference period and represents the “brief” interest in this period.

Although the figures are, in general, as representative of a bet on falling prices, they can also be used to arbitration on ongoing operations in the context of mergers. Short-circuit the bank storage of chemicals

For example, interest accrues to the chemistry Banking has more than tripled in August on 3.9 million shares. Some of that trade can be a gamble that the action Chemical fall, but often there is no doubt, is part of a trade, where investors also purchased the reserve producers Hanover, which merged with chemicals .

Some analysts argue that a significant decline in short interest stubborn because it probably means that many investors view the stock market to rise. Conversely, they say, a large increase in interest rates in the short term would be bearish.

Other analysts argue however that a large “surplus” on the part sold short is really a stubborn because, finally, these actions must be redeemed. In a growing market in the short sparkling suppliers to cover their positions could exert greater upward pressure on prices. With this argument, a decrease in interest rates in the short term is bearish.

The Supreme Court today reiterates that there is not a judgement about two weeks ago, permanently whether punitive damages against the Constitution is the guarantor of a trial of law.

In previous cases in Alabama, the Court of Justice ruled 7 to 1, a price of $ 840000 in punitive damages in a case of insurance fraud is not a violation of the insurance company ’s rights of due process.

But today, fallow land Justices punitive damage awards in seven cases in which the Court had latent action for months, while Alabama has been the case.

Cases pending from five state and federal courts, maintain the prices of punitive damages of $ 400000 to $ 3 million. In all cases, the command of the Justices of the lower courts, prices in light of the decision in the case of Alabama, Pacific Mutual v. Haslip.

Implicites of action in the Court today was the suggestion that even if the award of damages Alabama constitutional norms, some of these other maybe not. The action, it is possible, even probable that the cases reach the Supreme Court again.

At the same time, refused the revision of Justices in two other cases, punitive damages. These two events, as the Tribunal decided two weeks ago, were appeals to the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Both cases were Alabama General American Life Insurance Co. V. Simmons, No. 90-73, an appeal against an award of $ 600000, and Massachusetts Mutual Life v. Collins, No. 90-244, an appeal against an award of $ 750000. Both cases involved insurance fraud.

In its ruling two weeks ago, the Court said the jury instructions and the Appellate Body planned revision in Alabama were sufficient to ensure that ownership of a defendant are not taken, in the form punitive damages, without a trial of law. While the Court found constitutionally adequate procedures Alabama, he did not say whether the procedures were constitutionally required.

It is now a justice in other countries to compare their procedures for the Supreme Court to approve and decide whether they provide adequate protection against the fair trial.

“It is clear that the Supreme Court so that this issue is not so closed, and it is also clear that the Court do not want something to do, now more fair,” said Andrew L. Frey, a lawyer who has handled here punitive damages several cases by the Court of Auditors. “They are always the issue, ducking so they see that national courts have to say.”

Mr. Frey was one of the lawyers Hare Krishna movement through a medium of $ 3 million punitive damages prize won the California State courts by a former trailers and his mother. The complaint, International Society for Krishna Consciousness against George, No. 89-1399, in part states that the award threaten the movement of constitutional rights to free exercise of religion.

The Supreme Court of Justice in California, this distinction as against $ 2 million damage award Strafaktion of the Church of Scientology, won by an old trailer. Scientologists issues relating to freedom of religion in Church of Scientology v. Wollersheim, No. 89-1361.

The Court also has other punitive damage awards available today: A $ 400000 award against a Commodity Broker, was adopted by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, St. Louis (Clayton Brokerage against the Jordan, No. 88-1483); Price $ 500000 in a case of insurance, followed by the USA Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans (v. Eichenseer Reserve Life, No. 89-1303); $ 1.3 million against an allocation of Georgia Landkreis hospital Confirmed by the Georgia Supreme Court (Hospital Authority of Gwinnett County v. Jones, No. 89-1315) and a grant of $ 2 million in commercial real estate litigation, followed by the California Court of Appeal (v. Pacific Lighting Corp. MGW, Inc. No. 90-626) and an award of $ 500000 in one case, business secrets of the United States Court of Appeals for the 10 Circuit, Denver (Portec, Inc. v. The Post Office).

The Senate Banking Committee approved the legislation fixed today to reverse the depression era restrictions and allow American financial services to companies operating in the world with much less restrictive than the laws in force.

The legislation that the Committee approved 16 to 2, removal of barriers between insurance companies, Wall Street brokers and commercial banks, allowing them to merge more easily in large financial conglomerates. In some ways, the financial accounts of mergers already validated on the labour market or envisaged by the liberal interpretation of existing laws and other forms, can be quite new financial products businesses. The bill now goes to the full Senate.

”There is a broad consensus on the need for the modernization of financial services, which means that the bill,’’said Senator Alfonse M. D’Amato of New York, the Republican chairman of the Senate, the Banking Committee. ”The Committee action today is a big step forward. But Are not We There Yet. We have a good momentum, and I am confident that we can continue the process.”

In May, this bill squeaked through the house with one voice. That action led almost two decades between Gerangel insurance, Wall Street and banking interests, had the bill related to a legislative stalemate. Since May, however, markets in Switzerland and abroad are unstable, trade groups, horns have even blocked fashioned legislative compromise and powerful Wall Street executives, like Sanford I. Weill, Director General of the Travelers Group and David H. Komansky, Chief Executive of Merrill Lynch & Company, an aggressive policy of high-level and a lobbying campaign.

”This bill is so important for this country, if we financial turmoil from Moscow to Brazil,’’said Senator Faircloth leeks, North Carolina Republican. ”This bill would be a sea anchor of stability of the financial system in this country, that we need so much in that time.”

Not all committee members were convinced. The Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, visited eight Republican members of the committee this morning to stress the importance of this law - and once again his belief that the Federal Reserve should tonangebende the regulatory authority in emerging financial center. Nevertheless, Republicans from beiden”no”votes: Senator Phil Gramm of Texas and Senator Richard C. Shelby of Alabama.

The two grams of M. and M. Shelby offered a constant stream of changes at a later withdrawn, as part of a continuing attack not only on account of the Community Reinvestment Act, but on the reinvestment in the general law. The rules require banks, bank loans and other services to low-income areas. The Senate measure to extend such arrangements to several forms of the new mega-banks, and the two senators said they could not support every bill with these provisions.

The majority of the commission is an hour, with attacks on the town reinvestment requirements by the two senators. The largest came from Mr. grams, supporters of these rules extortionists”,” likening the mafia said”,” and rules wurden”ein how evil slavery in the pre-Civil War era. ” ‘

In response, Mr. Mr. D’Amato grams in its efforts for an attempted Killer”””Änderungsantrag, would any of this bill.”

Senate Democrats, in general, are strong supporters of the municipality of reinvestment and have indicated they are against the bill if it weakens existing rules.

An amendment leben””Banking to eliminate or reduce the costs of banking services to low-income customers was approved along party lines, Democrats promote the life of driver and eliminate Republicans are predominant.

An amendment proposed by Senator Christopher J. Dodd, a Democrat of Connecticut, the protection of privacy of customers if these new conglomerates begin to cross the market for banks, insurance and securities products was again defeated on party lists lines, with Democrats in favour of and against the Republicans.

In a rare moment of solidarity with the White House, Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, is now threatening the slowdown of the work of a Senate bill would restrict strongly that Mexican trucks aux Etats - Unis.

The Bush administration against violent action, which are part of a spending bill funding the Department of Transportation. The White House says it is too costly and cumbersome, and against the North American Free Trade Agreement. Senior Consultant of President Bush have said, they recommend a veto if the bill passes, and it seems enough votes against the bill to the Senate for the maintenance of such a right of veto.

Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary General of the Chamber of Commerce Donald L. Evans, the weekly Republican Senate this afternoon to give his objections against the bill and consolidate. Mr. Bush free trade and improving relations with Mexico, two of his priorities.

Trade agreements, the USA requires access to Mexican trucks to the country’s roads in January 2002. The trucks are now on the commercial areas, 20 kilometres from the border.

Supporters of the restrictive measure that was by Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, and Senator Richard C. Shelby, Republican of Alabama, said the provision was necessary to ensure that insecurity is not trucks travel on American highways. In June, the Assembly adopted by an overwhelming majority to maintain stricter measures again that the ban not only their economic zones.

”My goal is to ensure that free trade to public safety and progress side by side,’’said Murray, explains his account as a compromise between the White House and the house.

After negotiations between the two sides of the stalemate, “said McCain, he planned to prolong the debate”,”, unless a solution could be found. The negotiations were continued.

Senator Tom Daschle in South Dakota, most chefs, is planning to try to find out if it has threatened to block the Filibuster.

The president initially proposed that Mexican trucks to drive on the roads for 18 months while safety assessments of Mexican carriers. Last week, the administration has facilitated its position and said she wanted the safety checks on trucks before entering the USA.

The statistics from the transportation of Major General, Senator Murray said today on the ground, Mexican trucks that had ein”abgrundtief security.”

Your bill, round-the clock inspections of Mexican trucks at the border and local businesses Trucking. It would also ask weigh-motion scales - only stationary scales are used now - and Mexican require shippers to obtain insurance with insurers operating licence within the USA.

Opponents say the law already states that Mexican trucks on compliance with safety requirements necessary. Ms. Murray’s measure, they discuss, this is not only cumbersome but also anti-Mexikan. Canada would not have to comply with the new rules, even if the truck trailers said Canada was confident that the United States.

As it now”,” said Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Republican leader,”it bothers me is a kind of anti-Mexican, anti-Hispanic, anti-Nafta attitude — do not really want us to Mexican trucks coming into contact with that country. When they meet safety standards and inspection and insurance standards, why not?”

Opponents have also said that the measure could delay the entry of trucks for two years and cost millions more that can be applied. ”I have some concerns on a number of requirements, the bill that, without amendment, if adopted, could prevent the opening of the border for an indefinite period, Mr’’said McCain.

Ms. Murray is chairman of the subcommittee on transportation authorization of the commission, allocated more than $ 15 million for the Mexican Trucking that the $ 88 million of the President of the request.

Tonight’s game between Miami and Alabama for the so-called national championship is the largest since 1983, Sugar Bowl, as the second-ranking Penn State TOP defeated Georgia, 27-23.

Take a decision on whether to Miami or Alabama, the number 1 is important, equally important - at least the number of people from Miami and Tuscaloosa.

But the game itself - it earns - is that among USF & G, Baltimore-based insurance company. According to the report Special Events, U.S.F. & G. pay about $ 2 million per year on securities Sugar Bowl sponsor. Even if the full U.S.F. G. & Sugar Bowl “is largely ignored by sportswriters, promotion is like a huge three-and-a-half-hour Billboard for the company.

The attention that is paid, ABC’s 8:30 PM issuance of the season is really a good ball game (vis-à-vis the Federal Express Orange Bowl on NBC) is designed to attract the eyes and ears of countless and safe-to-be-scale visual and verbal indications of USF & G. If the fans chewing chugging chips and beer is to meet with the acquisition of USF & G. The policy is difficult to quantify.

During the last 39-28 victory over Notre-Dame de la Florida Sucrier, USF & G. Galantamin $ 3.9 million worth of exposure compared to the sponsors, the real, how many times the name of the sponsor are expressed by advertisers or seen on the ground and in the stadium. You whole, the exposure time and multiply it by the value of advertising.

So: U.S.F. & G. patches have been sewn in uniform 8 minutes 37 seconds, with a value of $ 1.5 million. The centre of the zone U.S.F. Logo & G. applied to 5:57 $ 1.07 million. The 3: 51 to U.S.F. G. & On-Screen-graphs, $ 693000, making 1:39 USF & G. report mentioned above, $ 300000 and markers 1:05 chain with the name of USF & G. on them, worth $ 195,000.

(These five appointments of USF & G in the previous section were valued at $ 30000, if the space communications in this category was the value of $ 90000 a 30 second spot for ABC last Sugar Bowl.)

Many other companies were happy to race USF & G. ’s coattails for their own exposure. Converse has received $ 702000 in value merely taking pullover Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz. After the game, Holtz Cheerios mentioned three times $ 90000 for exposure of cereals has not yet been requested.

The $ 3.9 million in interest purported value of USF & G. last year exceeded $ 3.2 million in the year 1991 in Tennessee, Virginia-Sugar Bowl, a profit largely by the presence of Notre Dame (this will certainly help get mobile gobs of attention for itself during the current PM 1 Cotton Bowl on NBC).

U.S.F. & G. is in its seventh year in the Sugar Bowl. But IBM signed no later than 10 days, with a price of $ 1.5 million per year under the previous sponsorless Fiesta Bowl (Syracuse against the Florida in 4:30 on NBC) as a vehicle for their OS / 2 PC and software.

The issue of pork Esch IBM’s expectations regarding the policy at its recent announcement of layoffs, Rob Crawley, spokesman of a company, said: “software and services has been a great growth market, and we must ‘encourage, as an integral part of our strategy. ”

During U.S.F. & G. According to the working relationship of New Year’s hours for allegedly obtaining new markets for policies, a game is played. For ABC’s Keith Jackson, sugar, until the end of the season adaptations of these two teams.

“Alabama has learned a lot happen to a team, as in Florida,” he said referring to the South Eastern Conference game titles. “They expect, Coach Gene Stallings, changes to close the cracks and wrinkles he saw.

“In this game, Eric Curry, a genuine All-American, he too often the game with a dispatch Straight ahead, but it was not until the fourth quarter to make it a better man to play . ”

He added: “Miami began late in the season hunting Gino Torretta, who half a breath. With the capabilities of Miami sports has largely beneficiary, a half-breath can be a great wound.”

Jackson said of Miami and Alabama “makes two of the best defenses of all time.