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Walt Minnick, though state Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Eagle, says he'll also be jumping into the race and former GOP Congressman Bill Sali still hasn't decided whether or not to try for a comeback.

It's been more than a year since he was first elected to Congress, but for Democratic Rep.

The House Financial Services Committee voted unanimously to approve an amendment that reduces the maximum retention--or so-called 'skin-in-the-game'--requirement from 10% to 5% as well as customize retention provisions for the CMBS market.

Sen. Olympia Snowe is by now a well-known US Senator and moderate. She has a long and distinguished career in politics, beginning in the Maine State House in 1974, the State Senate, then the US House of Representatives from 1979 - 1995, then being elected to the US Senate in 1995 where she has served since.

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A Senate Appropriations bill passed Tuesday contains $17.2 million for two projects on Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana; the bill now must be reconciled with the version passed by the U.S. House before it moves on to the president for action.

Large systemically significant financial institutions can't over-leverage themselves and have a debt to equity ratio greater than 15 to 1, according to a provision approved by the House Financial Services Committee on Thursday.

Nov. 19, 2009 - The House Financial Services Committee yesterday approved two key amendments to H.R. 3996, including one that eases the risk-retention requirements for institutions selling mortgage loans on the secondary market.

Democrats who desperately seek our next Church or Andrus to lead the party from the wilderness to the wealth of great ideas that, not only solve problems, but are politically popular.

Idaho Congressman Walt Minnick today unveiled job-training legislation he said he's been crafting for the past eight months.

The "Blue Dog" Democrats, 44 'fiscally conservative' congresspersons, did not acquit themselves well in this year, says the Heritage Foundation, via Stephen Moore : On three votes that would massively expand the size of government -- the stimulus plan, cap and trade, and health care reform -- Blue Dogs mostly were AWOL.

U.S. Rep. Walt Minnick says he knows some of the Democratic voters who backed him in last year's election are ticked off about his "No" votes on recent health insurance legislation, a climate change bill and other issues.

U.S. Rep. Walt Minnick, a Democrat, defeated one-term GOP Rep. Bill Sali in 2008.

Nov. 13, 2009 - NCUA is preparing a supervisory letter for examiners that will direct their focus toward credit unions' long-range planning over short-term results regarding earnings, NCUA Chairman Debbie Matz told lawmakers this week.

Nov. 9, 2009 - Federal financial institution regulators were urged to avoid over-aggressive responses to declines in depository institutions' loan quality in a recent letter from House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., and Rep.

TV Today's 6: Idaho's News Minnick Announces Bill For Rural Vets Meridian, ID Retired servicemen and women who live in rural communities face unique challenges in obtaining health care.

Community banks, which faced tougher scrutiny from regulators after last year's financial crisis and looming problems with commercial real estate, could be getting a break.

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Note: lesson learned: always go by official roll call votes . What was once eight is now four.

The House of Representatives on Saturday passed, by a 220-215 vote, historic health care overhaul legislation that would require nearly all Americans to obtain health insurance and create a government-run health insurance plan to help them do so.