Daily Briefing - Tuesday September 14, 2010

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Congressman Bob Filner represents California’s 51st District which includes much of southern San Diego, Chula Vista, National City, and all of Imperial County. In 1961 he participated in the Freedom Rides, and spent two months in a Mississippi jail as a result. This morning he joined a public demonstration against a bank foreclosure of a home owned by a mother who has one autistic child and another battling cancer and whose bank refused to even negotiate to modify her loan. 

Jeffrey Stempel is the Doris S. and Theodore B. Lee Professor of Law at the University of Nevada Las Vegas’s William S. Boyd School of Law. He has extensive experience in insurance law, and has authored books and articles on the subject, including Litigation Road: The Story of Campbell v. State Farm and Stemepl on Insurance Law. 

William D. Hartung is Director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation Previously, Mr. Hartung worked for 15 years as Director of the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute at the New School in New York City. He was also a policy analyst and speech writer for New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams, and a project director at the New York-based Council on Economic Priorities. His books include, How Much Are You Making on the War Daddy? A Quick and Dirty Guide to War Profiteering in the Bush Administration, Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War, and coming out in December, Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex