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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.

Message Confusion On Credit Industry Regulation

By Marc Ambinder
May 14 2009, 12:49 PM ET Comment

The day before President Obama touted his commitment to serious reform of the credit industry ("There's no time for delay; enough's enough," he said today), the Democratic Senate doesn't muster up the votes for push forward the only meaningful reform proposals out there, one which would have capped credit card interest rates at 15% and another which would have  expanded the government's regulatory power over the industry. The Senate's final vote on reform comes next week. Can 17 Democratic arms be twisted?


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