<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - john-snow</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/john-snow</link><description>Newsvine - john-snow</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 7 May 2009 13:13:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 02:47:53 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Pension Privateers Who Ran Away With Your 401(K)</title>
<description><![CDATA[JOHN SNOW won't have to worry about his retirement. When he left the csx railroad to become George W. Bush's second treasury secretary, he took with him a $2.5 million annual pension.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PowerIsKnowledge]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PowerIsKnowledge]]></source><link>http://powerisknowledge.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/07/2786571-pension-privateers-who-ran-away-with-your-401k</link><guid>http://powerisknowledge.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/07/2786571-pension-privateers-who-ran-away-with-your-401k</guid><category>pensions</category><category>politics</category><category>csx</category><category>george-w-bush</category><category>retirement</category><category>railroad</category><category>employment</category><category>john-snow</category><category>401-k</category><category>taxpayers</category><category>punitive-damages</category><pubDate>Thu, 7 May 2009 13:10:50 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Cox, Greenspan, Snow Agree: Freddie Mac And Fannie Mae Did Not Cause The Financial Crisis»</title>
<description><![CDATA[According to conservatives, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae's audacity to loan to low-income Americans is to blame for the current financial crisis. During the final presidential debate, for example, Sen.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[greenpagan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[greenpagan]]></source><link>http://greenpagan.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/23/2033169-cox-greenspan-snow-agree-freddie-mac-and-fannie-mae-did-not-cause-the-financial-crisis</link><guid>http://greenpagan.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/23/2033169-cox-greenspan-snow-agree-freddie-mac-and-fannie-mae-did-not-cause-the-financial-crisis</guid><category>freddie-mac</category><category>politics</category><category>fannie-mae</category><category>mccain</category><category>john-mccain</category><category>alan-greenspan</category><category>obama</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>christopher-cox</category><category>john-snow</category><category>capitalism</category><category>us-congress</category><category>henry-waxman</category><category>financial-crisis</category><category>john-mica</category><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:18:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Sorting through the automakers' mayhem</title>
<description><![CDATA[It's gut-check time in Detroit, as the highest-stakes game of chicken in automotive history hurtles forward.

What will become of Chrysler? And of General Motors, for that matter?]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aine MacDermot]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Aine MacDermot]]></source><link>http://aine.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/22/2029265-sorting-through-the-automakers-mayhem</link><guid>http://aine.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/22/2029265-sorting-through-the-automakers-mayhem</guid><category>business</category><category>gm</category><category>uaw</category><category>michigan</category><category>chrysler</category><category>general-motors</category><category>detroit</category><category>automakers</category><category>unions</category><category>transportation</category><category>automotive</category><category>john-snow</category><category>kirk-kerkorian</category><category>renault-nissan</category><category>robert-nardelli</category><category>david-stockman</category><category>cerebus-capital</category><category>stephen-feinberg</category><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:47:28 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Real Snubbing of American Troops </title>
<description><![CDATA[Pumping up a non issues, while ignoring the real story, has to become a predictable pattern with the mainstream media.  

It is so extreme it is almost laughable, but not one bit funny to see it happen because our precarious freedoms rely very much on a free press.    ]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pamela Drew]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Pamela Drew]]></source><link>http://pameladrew.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/26/1697658-the-real-snubbing-of-american-troops</link><guid>http://pameladrew.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/26/1697658-the-real-snubbing-of-american-troops</guid><category>politics</category><category>mccain</category><category>obama</category><category>veterans</category><category>john-snow</category><category>patriotism</category><category>msm</category><category>corporate-media</category><category>homless</category><category>walter-reed</category><category>corporate-government</category><category>pamela-drew</category><category>iap-worldwide</category><category>ramstein</category><category>political-coverage</category><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:07:21 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2FPamelaDrew2F1697894.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="397" width="300" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2FPamelaDrew2F1697894.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="159" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://namguardianangel.org/_wsn/page4.html&quot;&gt;http://namguardianangel.org/_wsn/page4.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2FPamelaDrew2F1697897.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="300" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2FPamelaDrew2F1697897.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2FPamelaDrew2F1697898.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="54" width="163" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2FPamelaDrew2F1697898.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="40" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2FPamelaDrew2F1697899.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="280" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=http3A2F2Fwww.newsvine.com2F_vine2Fimages2Fusers2FPamelaDrew2F1697899.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="84" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Patriotism Served by Corporate Diversity.&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>The Hidden Costs of Insourcing: Higher Trade Deficits and Job Losses for U.S. Workers</title>
<description><![CDATA[Both the job and trade statistics refute the argument that insourcing offsets the negative effects of offshoring on U.S. jobs and trade.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[greenpagan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[greenpagan]]></source><link>http://greenpagan.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/30/931484-the-hidden-costs-of-insourcing-higher-trade-deficits-and-job-losses-for-us-workers</link><guid>http://greenpagan.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/30/931484-the-hidden-costs-of-insourcing-higher-trade-deficits-and-job-losses-for-us-workers</guid><category>business</category><category>commerce-department</category><category>john-snow</category><category>henry-paulson</category><category>economic-analysis</category><category>comprehensive-data</category><category>field-institute</category><pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:21:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Commerce, Treasury funds helped boost GOP campaigns</title>
<description><![CDATA[Top Commerce and Treasury Departments officials appeared with Republican candidates and doled out millions in federal money in battleground congressional districts and states after receiving White House political briefings detailing GOP election strategy.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aine MacDermot]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Aine MacDermot]]></source><link>http://aine.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/17/903524-commerce-treasury-funds-helped-boost-gop-campaigns</link><guid>http://aine.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/17/903524-commerce-treasury-funds-helped-boost-gop-campaigns</guid><category>politics</category><category>gop</category><category>republicans</category><category>karl-rove</category><category>treasury-department</category><category>commerce-department</category><category>investigations</category><category>rick-santorum</category><category>john-snow</category><category>doj</category><category>heather-wilson</category><category>gsa</category><category>john-walters</category><category>lurita-doan</category><category>house-oversight-committee</category><category>hatch-act</category><category>politicization</category><category>political-briefings</category><category>dan-nelson</category><pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:16:28 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Chrysler sold for $7.4bn</title>
<description><![CDATA[Another private equity coup. After seeing how much money Daimler crysler have lost on this venture it will be interesting to see how much Cerberus make on it.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pedro Henri]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Pedro Henri]]></source><link>http://pedrissimo.newsvine.com/_news/2007/05/14/717712-chrysler-sold-for-74bn</link><guid>http://pedrissimo.newsvine.com/_news/2007/05/14/717712-chrysler-sold-for-74bn</guid><category>business</category><category>john-snow</category><category>daimler</category><category>private-equity</category><category>cerberus</category><category>web-money</category><category>daimlercrysler</category><category>us-manufacturing</category><pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 09:35:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Bush Apologizes for Walter Reed Woes</title>
<description><![CDATA[President Bush apologized Friday for the shoddy conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and promised during a visit to the facility for war veterans that "we're going to fix the problem."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/03/30/639114-bush-apologizes-for-walter-reed-woes</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/03/30/639114-bush-apologizes-for-walter-reed-woes</guid><category>bush</category><category>politics</category><category>john-snow</category><category>walter-reed-army-medical-center</category><category>dan-quayle</category><category>iap-worldwide</category><category>general-hagee</category><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:03:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/fc9ed19d-f484-4411-9453-28b1601aca32.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="377" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/fc9ed19d-f484-4411-9453-28b1601aca32.jpg" width="120" height="163" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;President Bush, center, flanked by House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, left, and House Minority Whip Roy Blunt of Mo., walks out to the North Portico of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 29, 2007. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/f7386f59-5dae-4948-bd48-7c4d09368363.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="323" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/f7386f59-5dae-4948-bd48-7c4d09368363.jpg" width="120" height="97" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;President Bush walks out of the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 30, 2007, for a visit to Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/b826e3e0-ca9f-4270-8f06-146ed3b4a9e4.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="290" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/b826e3e0-ca9f-4270-8f06-146ed3b4a9e4.jpg" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;President Bush waves has he arrives at the Fitzgerald Tennis Center in Washington, Friday, March 30, 2007, prior to heading to the Walter Reed Army Center. at left is a banner on a house that reads &quot;Bring The Troops Home&quot;.  (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/8dc3d396-44d4-41d3-af39-3ca02f4dd7a5.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="305" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/8dc3d396-44d4-41d3-af39-3ca02f4dd7a5.jpg" width="120" height="92" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;President Bush, right, shakes hands with the prosthetic arm of 1st Lt. Scott Quilty during a visit with patients at the physical therapy wing of Walter Reed Army Center in Washington, Friday, March 30, 2007.  (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/e4c33e08-947d-46b2-8deb-51fe97d78701.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="290" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/e4c33e08-947d-46b2-8deb-51fe97d78701.jpg" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;President Bush speaks at the Red Cross Hall during his visit to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, Friday, March 30, 2007. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/dd25258a-51d6-4cf9-968d-21aa27cc13fc.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="283" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/dd25258a-51d6-4cf9-968d-21aa27cc13fc.jpg" width="120" height="85" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;President Bush, right, shakes hands with the prosthetic arm of 1st Lt. Scott Quilty during a visit with patients at the physical therapy wing of Walter Reed Army Center in Washington, Friday, March 30, 2007.  (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Snow: Program Vital to War on Terrorism</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Bush administration said Friday an anti-terrorism program that taps into an immense international database of confidential financial records has adequate safeguards to protect Americans' privacy.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeannine Aversa]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jeannine Aversa]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2006/06/23/265855-snow-program-vital-to-war-on-terrorism</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2006/06/23/265855-snow-program-vital-to-war-on-terrorism</guid><category>treasury</category><category>politics</category><category>terrorist</category><category>financing</category><category>john-snow</category><category>terrorist-financing</category><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:46:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/6e73233f-6b02-4870-a054-fac87a3f4ad3.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="305" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/6e73233f-6b02-4870-a054-fac87a3f4ad3.jpg" width="120" height="92" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;White House Press Secretary Tony Snow answers questions during his daily briefing, Thursday, June 23, 2006, at the White House about reports that the administration accessed international banking records in the war on terror. The Bush administration gained sweeping access to international banking records as part of a classified program to choke off financial support for terrorism, government officials confirmed Thursday.   (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)  &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/cd64ed74-a9eb-4293-8e4b-1bb540a1fc16.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="266" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/cd64ed74-a9eb-4293-8e4b-1bb540a1fc16.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Treasury Secretary John Snow during a news conference at the Treasury Department in Washington, Friday, June 23, 2006. Snow said a program tracking millions of financial transactions was not invasion of privacy of Americans but &quot;government at its best&quot; and vital to the war on terrorism.  (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Video: Bush Caught In Lie About Snow Resignation</title>
<description><![CDATA[If the economy is doing so great, why would acknowledging Treas. Sec. Snow's resignation have any affect on the markets? It's such a trivial event, from a 'big picture' point of view, it hardly seems worth lying about... unless maybe there's more to this than meets the eye.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aine MacDermot]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Aine MacDermot]]></source><link>http://aine.newsvine.com/_news/2006/05/30/235178-video-bush-caught-in-lie-about-snow-resignation</link><guid>http://aine.newsvine.com/_news/2006/05/30/235178-video-bush-caught-in-lie-about-snow-resignation</guid><category>media</category><category>bush</category><category>white-house</category><category>politics</category><category>treasury-department</category><category>resignations</category><category>press</category><category>john-snow</category><category>tony-snow</category><pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 20:16:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Op-Ed: Income gap mentality</title>
<description><![CDATA["All we are left with is our aspirations in a game where the average share of the American dream is being spoiled.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aine MacDermot]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Aine MacDermot]]></source><link>http://aine.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/23/175531-op-ed-income-gap-mentality</link><guid>http://aine.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/23/175531-op-ed-income-gap-mentality</guid><category>treasury</category><category>economy</category><category>labor</category><category>economics</category><category>us-news</category><category>john-snow</category><category>wages</category><category>fiscal-policy</category><category>working-poor</category><category>op-eds</category><category>executive-compensation</category><pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:40:58 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Scott McClellan 'Next On the Chopping Block?'</title>
<description><![CDATA[It's about time. Maybe Bolten will seriously try to find a Press Secretary who is capable of being a little more straightforward with the White House Press Corps, and by extension the American people.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Farris]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Brad Farris]]></source><link>http://bradfarris.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/03/154931-scott-mcclellan-next-on-the-chopping-block</link><guid>http://bradfarris.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/03/154931-scott-mcclellan-next-on-the-chopping-block</guid><category>white-house</category><category>politics</category><category>scott-mcclellan</category><category>john-snow</category><category>josh-bolten</category><pubDate>Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:55:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Snow Tries to Snow WSJ, Gets Blowback</title>
<description><![CDATA["Census Bureau data show median family income -- half of families have income greater than the median, half have less -- fell 3.6 percent from 2000 through 2004," reported the Journal. "Incomes for the poorest families fell even further.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aine MacDermot]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Aine MacDermot]]></source><link>http://aine.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/21/140810-snow-tries-to-snow-wsj-gets-blowback</link><guid>http://aine.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/21/140810-snow-tries-to-snow-wsj-gets-blowback</guid><category>economy</category><category>labor</category><category>politics</category><category>poverty</category><category>john-snow</category><category>wages</category><category>treasury-secretary</category><category>wall-st-journal</category><pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:45:17 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Treasury Dept. Moves to Avoid Debt Limit</title>
<description><![CDATA[Treasury Secretary John Snow notified Congress on Monday that the administration has now taken "all prudent and legal actions," including tapping certain government retirement funds, to keep from hitting the $8.2 trillion national debt limit.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Crutsinger]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Martin Crutsinger]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/06/122013-treasury-dept-moves-to-avoid-debt-limit</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/06/122013-treasury-dept-moves-to-avoid-debt-limit</guid><category>politics</category><category>federal</category><category>debt</category><category>john-snow</category><pubDate>Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:07:38 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>