|
Lawmakers report progress on financial rescue deal
|
|
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nervously eyeing the markets' next trading session, key lawmakers in both parties and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson worked late into the night Saturday trying to close an agreement on a multibillion-dollar government bailout of distressed financial companies.
|
|
The Full Text...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
House GOP leaders endorse $700B financial bailout
|
|
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional leaders and the White House agreed Sunday to a $700 billion rescue of the ailing financial industry after lawmakers insisted on sharing spending controls with the Bush administration. The biggest U.S. bailout in history won the tentative support of both presidential candidates and goes to the House for a vote Monday.
|
|
The Full Text...
|
|
|
|
|
Returning Taxpayer Accountability
|
|
Credit Crisis: "What a revoltin' development this is!" Ed Norton used to say when things went bad on the old "Honeymooners" TV show. And that certainly expresses the sentiments of all Americans this week.
|
|
The Full Text...
|
|