On Friday, Mr. Skakel's current lawyers questioned Marjorie Walker Hauer, who grew up in the Belle Haven neighborhood of Greenwich where the Skakel and Moxley families lived during the 1970s.

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Advocating his amendment, Mr Walker warned that the legislation in its current form would weaken the ability of opposition and backbench MPs to hold the government to account.

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If the Democrats do show up to vote and several Republicans end up defecting and voting against the bill in its current form, I doubt Governor Scott Walker could survive the fallout.

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Walker has confirmed that that he will be keeping the current backroom staff of Jim Grattan, Jeff Montgomery and David Dorrian.

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The BBC's Andrew Walker points out that the more common approach to failing banks in the current crisis has been for the state to inject new capital.

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But that, says Mr Walker, would be just another short-term fix of the sort that got the state into its current mess.

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