Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray and Congressman Rick Larsen teamed up to introduce legislation that reauthorizes and expands the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative Act.
There's an article in the Sunday New York Times about how the current mortgage debt crisis in the U.S. financial system came about (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/business/23how.html?ref=business&pagewanted=all)
There are calls for new regulations and changes to the Federal Reserve/SEC mission, but one passage in particular struck me: