{"id":194436,"date":"2008-09-22T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/22\/update-dodd-bill-does-have-bankruptcy-changes\/"},"modified":"2008-09-22T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T03:28:00","slug":"update-dodd-bill-does-have-bankruptcy-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/22\/update-dodd-bill-does-have-bankruptcy-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Dodd Bill Does Have Bankruptcy Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/thecrypt\/0908\/Dodd_bill_much_more_aggressive_than_Treasury_plan.html\">Politico.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Among the major provisions Dodd is adding:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Authority for bankruptcy judges to restructure mortgages for homeowners facing foreclosure. This was considered a poison pill in a housing bill that passed Congress earlier this summer, but it has gained much more currency now that Washington wants to bail out Wall Street.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Two snaps up to the distinguished gentleman from Connecticut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Politico.com: Among the major provisions Dodd is adding: Authority for bankruptcy judges to restructure mortgages for homeowners facing foreclosure. This was considered a poison pill in a housing bill that passed Congress earlier this summer, but it has gained much more currency now that Washington wants to bail out Wall Street. Two snaps &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1004,1020,1088],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-finance","category-legislation","category-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}