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  February 20, 2003 Conseco Finance Withdraws Motion To Reject Housing Loans Conseco Inc.'s Conseco Finance Corp. unit late on Wednesday withdrew an emergency motion to reject $23 billion in money

  February 14, 2003 Report on Enron Highlights Pay Deals, Tax Manipulation Enron Corp. used schemes of dizzying complexity to shrink its tax payments, inflate its income and overwhelm the Internal

  February 19 , 2003   2002 Bankruptcy Filings Set Another Record Bankruptcy filings continue to break historic records, according to data released on Friday by the Administrative Office of the U.S

  February 28, 2003 Hatch Plans To Take Bankruptcy Bill 'Directly To The Floor' Suggesting that too many pitfalls and delays await comprehensive bankruptcy reform legislation in committee, Senate

  February 24, 2003 OCC Issues Guidelines to Banks to Guard Against Abusive Lending Practices The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on Friday issued two advisory letters establishing

  March 3, 2003 Democrats Warn of 'Lengthy' Debate on Bankruptcy Bill Democrats expressed concern on Friday about Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch's (R-Utah) plan to take bankruptcy reform

  February 25, 2003 Nickles's Asbestos Liability Bill Blasted By Labor Federation The AFL-CIO on Monday blasted asbestos liability legislation recently introduced by Senate Budget Chairman Don Nickles

  February 26, 2003 Consumer Confidence Plunges To Its Lowest Level in Years Soaring energy costs, the prospect of war with Iraq and terrorism alerts combined to send consumers' confidence in the

  February 27, 2003 House Sponsors Plan To Offer New Bankruptcy Legislation House Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) plans today to introduce this year's version of comprehensive

  March 12, 2003 Dodd Plans To Oversee Forum For Asbestos Litigation Stakeholders Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) plans to convene a 'summit' for business leaders, organized labor, consumer groups and