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AIG CEO Liddy offers halfsies-back on executive bonuses

By Chris Steller | 03.18.09 | 1:02 pm

AIG CEO Edward Liddy told the U.S. House Financial Services Committee that he has asked AIG executives who got bonuses “to return at least half of those payments.” Some want to return 100 percent, he said. C-SPAN3 is streaming the…

‘Obama Republican’ Paulsen tapped to lead House GOP on AIG

By Chris Steller | 03.18.09 | 11:36 am

U.S. Reps. Erik Paulsen, R-Minn., and Leonard Lance, R-N.J., are among the lowliest members of the House Financial Services Committee. Yet some politically astute casting elevated the freshmen to GOP point men in response to the AIG bonus scandal. The pair are among that rarest of species in Congress: newly elected Republicans from districts that favored Barack Obama for president.