Geithner RSVPs for Date with Ed Towns

In two weeks, irascible Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner will have the pleasure of answering a few more questions on Capitol Hill.

“I look forward to hearing Mr. Geithner’s testimony,” said oversight committee chairman Ed Towns in a brief statement confirming Mr. Geithner’s appearance on Jan. 27.

Yesterday, the Brooklyn congressman sent out a Read More

Towns’ Friends Gather to Hold Back the Tide

Ed Towns’ fellow elected Democrats are doing their best to spare him the fate that Hillary Clinton suffered this year.

"We don’t want to have Barack Obama in the White House, and all of a sudden lose the seniority that Ed Towns would bring to us," said City Comptroller Bill Thompson at a reasonably well-attended Read More