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A Modest Proposal: Performance Reviews For Senators Authored by Frank Miele via RealClearPolitics, It seems as though only one thing motivates Congress to act - the threat of elections. That's why both the House and Senate have moved to pass a continuing resolution to keep funding the government until December. Originally funding was going to run out on Oct. 1, the date that was decided during the last shutdown crisis. But with virtually every member of the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate up for election in November, almost no one...

Treasury Sanctions Crypto Exchange Behind Iran's Bitcoin Tolls On Hormuz Ships Via Decrypt.co, The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned BitBank, naming the Iranian exchange it says carried the Bitcoin that shipping companies paid for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Since June, the Office of Foreign Assets Control said, the Hormuz Safe Marine Services Authority has used BitBank to pass the payments it collects on to the Iranian regime. That authority was the body charging vessels in Bitcoin for transit rights, a scheme Treasury designated in July. Today, as part of Operation Economic...

Hoping to transition from being “Chicago’s Most Connected Banker” to once again holding elected office, the two-term former Mayor of Chicago and former chief of staff to Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, did this month what all savvy political hopefuls do: He traveled to meet some of the largest power brokers in American politics at their […]