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Pelosi plans to push legislation next week to help the ailing auto industry and has tapped Barney Frank to craft a bill that would give auto makers "limited" assistance under TARP.
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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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WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sought
to create a special committee Thursday in an effort...
to jump-start long-delayed government efforts to deal with global warming and produce a bill by Independence Day. Pelosi, D-Calif., said the ...
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Pelosi Creates Global Warming Committee
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Democrats Plot Detroit Rescue
The New Editor —
The Wall Street Journal's Jonathan Weisman, Greg Hitt, and John D. McKinnon report:
Democratic leaders in Congress said Tuesday they will push legislation next week to use the $700 billion Wall Street rescue fund to bail out Detroit auto makers, and President-elect Barack Obama ordered his transition team to look at ways to aid the car industry even before his inauguration.The first political payoff from the Obama Administration? That's what it looks like from here.
Why would anyone want to bail out the US auto industry? Let them go ...
Obama Still Pushing for Car Industry Help
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... WSJ: The President-elect has ordered his transition team to look at ways to aid the automobile industry even before his inauguration.
Democratic leaders also say they expect to push legislation on using some of the bailout money for auto help sometime next week. ...
The Morning Report
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com —
In the Headlines " Democrats Plot Detroit Rescue " (Jonathan Weisman, Greg Hitt and John McKinnon, Wall Street Journal ) - Democratic leaders in Congress said Tuesday they will push legislation next week to use the $700 billion Wall Street rescue fund to bail out Detroit auto makers, and President-elect Barack Obama ordered his transition team to look at ways to aid the car industry even before his inauguration. " ...
Running on Fumes
Weekly Standard Blog —
... that GM barely has enough in cash reserves to keep the doors open until the end of 2008. And President Bush seems less than eager to dispense billions in taxpayer money to prop up a company at death's door, anyway. Instead, it seems likely that Barack Obama will be forced to bail out the automakers as one of the first acts of his new administration. ...
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Pelosi, Reid Letter to Paulson on Auto Aid
blogs.wsj.com 11/10/2008 — The following is the full text of a letter sent to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid , urging aid for the auto industry.
Dear Secretary Paulson:
We are writing to request ...
Pelosi Pledges Aid To Automakers, Strings Attached
huffingtonpost.com 11/16/2008 — WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Saturday the House would provide aid to the ailing U.S. auto industry, requiring that the industry meet new fuel-efficiency standards, produce advanced vehicles and restructure "to ensure their ...
Pelosi Looks Past Bush, Tying Auto Legislation To Obama Agenda
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blog.thehill.com 11/5/2008 — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi discussed with reporters the outcome of the race on Wednesday and the importance of passing a second stimulus package in the lame duck session.
If It Happens, The Auto Industry Bailout Needs To Be Done Right
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 11/14/2008 — There seems to be a growing consensus in Washington that the federal government needs to bail out America’s auto industry. The Wall Street Journal reported today that Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), in a letter sent ...
Pelosi says voters misunderstood Prop. 8
sfgate.com 11/9/2008 — In a wide-ranging interview with The Chronicle, Pelosi said she believes some voters might not have fully understood the initiative, which overturned a state Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. The measure was approved 52 to 48 percent. ...
The Auto Bailout
balloon-juice.com 11/23/2008 — Over at the Corner , all sorts of gruesome numbers regarding the woes of the Big Three, and the question I have to keep asking is why bail them out? I really do not understand how sending tens of billions on top of the 25 billion in loans to ...
Obama vs. Pelosi
online.wsj.com 11/9/2008 — Barack Obama obviously has thought carefully about mistakes made by previous Democratic presidential winners who wrongly believed a Congress controlled by their own party would help make them a success. Pollster Doug Schoen, who helped Bill Clinton ...
Congress Prepares to Debate Auto Aid
online.wsj.com 11/28/2008 — Congressional leaders were taking the first steps to reconsider an emergency aid package for Detroit's struggling auto makers as the companies work to meet a fast-approaching deadline.
House to Consider Auto Aid —
Wash Post In Congress 11/12/2008
The House will convene next week to vote on a plan to provide emergency cash to the nation's battered automobile industry, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday, but a federal bailout for Detroit faces an uphill battle in the Senate and an uncertain ...
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