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Published 12/5/2008 by Lori Montgomery and Kendra Marr at Wash Post In Congress
The chief executives of Detroit's automakers returned to Capitol Hill yesterday bearing austere business plans and a dose of humility, but they failed to close the deal for as much as $38 billion in federal loans.
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