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McClatchy Washington Bureau | 01/16/2009 | One last Bush bailout before end: Chrysler gets $1.5 billion
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WASHINGTON In one final taxpayer bailout of industry before the Bush administration leaves office, the Treasury Department on Friday announced a $1.5 billion, five-year loan to a special company that Chrysler Financial is creating. The struggling automaker will create a special entity that ...
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McClatchy Washington Bureau | 01/21/2009 | Undoing Bush: Obama orders easier access to public ...
— mcclatchydc.com — WASHINGTON President Barack Obama, in his first full day in office, revoked a controversial executive order signed... by President Bush in 2001 that limited release of former presidents' records. The new order could expand public access to records of ... (more) McClatchy Washington Bureau | 01/21/2009 | Undoing Bush: ...

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One Last Bush Bailout Before End: Chrysler Gets $1.5 Billion
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... employees who want to build cars. Now with enhanced financing available in the system we can help our customers," Jim Press, the vice chairman of Chrysler LLC, said in a statement. The latest bailout follows Treasury's pre-Christmas move to provide $4 billion to Chrysler in emergency funding to help stave off bankruptcy. It came less than 24 hours after Treasury officials announced in the wee hours $20 billion in additional Wall Street bailout money for Bank of America. Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/148/story/59912.html

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Daily Kos — Another day, another investment manager on the run....with $350 million dollars. The Oakland police department has terminated 11 officers for falsifying search warrant affidavits. After six deaths and 450 reported cases of illness, the Kellogg Co. has recalled 16 different products due to a salmonella outbreak -- suspected to originate from the Kellogg plant in Georgia. Late yesterday, the Treasury Dept. announced a $1.5 billion bail-out of Chrysler.. "We've Got $1.5 Billion to Finance ...

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