nytimes.com - 11/9/2008
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WASHINGTON Democratic leaders in Congress urged the Bush administration on Saturday to consider using the $700 billion bailout for the financial system to aid distressed American automakers, in a prelude to what may become urgent negotiations over additional economic stimulus measures. In a ...
washingtonpost.com - 11/8/2008
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Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 9, 2008;
A01 With the nation's automotive industry hemorrhaging cash, congressional...
leaders called on the Bush administration yesterday to offer government assistance to the car companies as part of the ...
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Reid, Pelosi Urge Treasury to Extend Aid to Automakers
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online.wsj.com - 11/9/2008
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Pelosi and Reid are expected to send a
letter to Bush urging him to assist the Big...
Three auto makers by considering broadening the $700 billion TARP to help the troubled industry.
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Pelosi, Reid Press for Aid for Autos
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An Open Letter to Congressional Leadership
Daily Kos —
... There are obviously some immediate needs with which you must deal, perhaps as soon as this month in a lame duck session: the financial crisis shows little sign of easing, despite the $700 billion shareholder bonanza you passed. Your efforts to target a portion of that bailout to U.S. automakers is perhaps a start. You write to Secretary Paulson: ...
The Russian Question
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... days, although that was their candidate's ticket to the White House. Iraq was the winning issue that gave Obama's primary campaign the oomph it needed to oust the putative front-runner from her perch as the anointed one, but it fails to evoke the interest it once did on account of the rapid deterioration of the economy. It doesn't matter that the costs of the Iraq and Afghan wars amount to at least three more bank bailouts and you can throw in what's left of the American auto industry for good measure. For all the focus ...
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