Talk:Phil Gramm

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Contents 1 gramm&associates 2 Enron? 3 Gramm's switch 4 Gramm's opinion of Bush

[edit] gramm&associates

Is "Partner, Gramm & Associates" the correct name? What was the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings legislation? RickK 05:05, 17 Aug 2003 (UTC)

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I tried to answer the latter. Please see the current version of the article. Wenteng 05:19, 17 Aug 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Enron?

I have removed the reference to Wendy Gramm's membership of the Enron board. This was the only addition the anonymous poster made and it is irrelevant to her husband's info. She was also a member of the board for the Iowa beef processors, Invesco funds, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and several other organizations. She has held numerous position in government as well. But the addition of the Enron information is POV when it is out of context. If the poster wants to write an article about Wendy Gramm and include this and other facts about her, I encourage him/her to do so. But I don't believe it is appropriate to slip it in her husband's entry when it is irrelevant to him and out of context. - Dan Lovejoy

Were it not that Enron has been discovered to be a grossly corrupt corporation that bilked its shareholders and customers and the people of the United States in general out of an unbelieveable sum of money, your argument might hold water. As it has infact been discovered to be such an aforementioned corporation, that a board member is the wife of a national legislator is worth mentioning in three words at the end of an article. --B. Phillips 18:25, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

I have put something back in about Enron as it was Gramm who pushed through the legislation deregulating the energy market that led to much of Enrons fun and games. His wifes "involvement" for want of a better phrase can stay here as minimum mention I would think because it explains his involvement. CaptinJohn 13:02, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

again, all mention of Enron has been suspiciously sanitized from this article, esp given Gramm's responsibility for the enabling legislation of the Enron Loophole bill. ref David Corn article in Mother Jones [1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.191.250.80 (talk) 18:18, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gramm's switch

I had heard that he was also attending Democratic party meetings and leaking information to the Republicans. That would be another reason to kick him off of the Banking Committee, if true.

[edit] Gramm's opinion of Bush

This is somewhat irrelevant to this article, but interesting to note. Gramm visited one of my undergraduate political science classes a few years ago to answer questions about each of the presidents he has known in his years in Washington. He was generally praiseworthy of each of the men, including Carter and Clinton (though he noted that he thought Clinton was a bit strange). When he got to W. Bush, however, he was rather critical. He didn't explicitly say "Bush is an idiot," but all of his comments gave me the feeling that that was his impression, and this was at a time when Bush's approval ratings were riding high. It's not that all of his comments about Bush were negative, but I still remember how surprised I was by his Bush comments, especially when compared to his comments about the other presidents. And that's my Phil Gramm story. - Jersyko·talk 21:41, 20 February 2006 (UTC)