Let the Record Show …

As Elana Schor highlights, the Dodd executive pay restrictions weren’t added to the stimulus bill at the last minute in conference, as much of the reporting this week as described it. Rather, they were added by voice vote days before the bill passed, with no objection from either party. The only thing last minute about them was the last-minute effort to strip them and other pay restrictions out of the bill. So the framing of this as a sneak attack under cover of darkness? Not true.