politico.com - 12/8/2008
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On its face, the bill's draft language simply preserves the status quo, but it leaves room for some change.
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The Early Word: Shaping an Industry's Future
The Caucus —
... supervision in order to receive a taxpayer-financed bailout. Whatever oversight entity is created, it would direct the drastic reorganization plans that the auto companies have said they were willing to undertake in exchange for billions of dollars in short-term government loans to keep them in business, a senior Congressional aide said. A main factor complicating the deliberations was the imminent transition between the Bush and Obama administrations. Politco’s David Rogers also notes that the legislation could leave the door open for Mr. Obama to supplement the bailout with ...
Transition News 12/08
The Stump —
Supreme Court declines to hear
Obama's citizenship
case.
Eric
Shinseki, who doubted Iraq strategy, tapped for veterans
affairs.
Obama supports laid-off Illinois workers occupying
a factory.
How Obama can influence
the federal judicial bench. Slate describes
the two changes Gates wants to bring to
the Pentagon.
Obama urges for an auto bailout,
and could have power over the funding.
Liberals feel
left out of ...
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