Sunlight Foundation

Bailout bill’s stealthy authorship potentially problematic

Publication: Medill News Service

Marjorie Korn
October 2, 2008

WASHINGTON – Throughout consideration of Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson’s original bailout plan, many congressmen chided regulators, including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Reserve, for allowing certain sectors of the market to run amok with little oversight and insufficient public disclosure.