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The Senate will begin debate within minutes on their attempt to revive the bailout bill rejected by the House. They have released the bill text this morning, and the Senate Conservatives Fund website has it for public perusal. The new version has no allocations going to the Housing Trust ...

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A Blog For All: Larding Up the Senate Bailout Rescue Bill

Say Anything: Senate Bailout Bill Contains Pork For Race Tracks, Rum

Flopping Aces: Earmarks Slipped Into $700bn Bailout Bill

The Moderate Voice: We are ungoverned

Weekly Standard Blog: Text of the New Bailout Bill

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Larding Up the Senate Bailout Rescue Bill
A Blog For All — ... 308) - American Samoa (Sec. 309) - Mine Rescue Teams (Sec. 310) - Mine Safety Equipment (Sec. 311) - Domestic Production Activities in Puerto Rico (Sec. 312) - Indian Tribes (Sec. 314, 315) - Railroads (Sec. 316) - Auto Racing Tracks (317) - District of Columbia (Sec. 322) - Wool Research (Sec. 325) How exactly does any of that have to do with solving the financial crisis? It doesn't. It's members of Congress doing what they always do - look out for themselves first and foremost. Ed at Hot Air also weighs in on the larding up of this "rescue bill." Disgraceful doesn't even ...

Senate Bailout Bill Contains Pork For Race Tracks, Rum
Say Anything — ... The Senate is getting ready to vote on a bailout bill tonight, but if that bill passes Americans won’t just be shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars for the bailout itself. They’ll be shelling out for some pork for race tracks and rum too. ...

Earmarks Slipped Into $700bn Bailout Bill
Flopping Aces — ... “extenders” in the bailout bill. - Virgin Island and Puerto Rican Rum (Section 308) - American Samoa (Sec. 309) - Mine Rescue Teams (Sec. 310) - Mine Safety Equipment (Sec. 311) - Domestic Production Activities in Puerto Rico (Sec. 312) - Indian Tribes (Sec. 314, 315) - Railroads (Sec. 316) - Auto Racing Tracks (317) - District of Columbia (Sec. 322) - Wool Research (Sec. 325) HERE’s the bill… ht Hot Air ...

We are ungoverned
The Moderate Voice — Over at my own blog this morning, I griped about what I saw as some off-topic distractions in the Senate’s version of the bail-out bill. At the time, the full breadth of the Senate’s madness hadn’t been revealed. But it has now. From Hot Air: New Tax earmarks in Bailout bill - Film and Television Productions (Sec. 502) - Wooden Arrows designed for use by children (Sec. 503) - 6 page package of earmarks for litigants in the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident, Alaska (Sec. 504) ...

Text of the New Bailout Bill
Weekly Standard Blog — Download all 451 pages of it, here. A preview of some of the yummy pork stuck in it: - Virgin Island and Puerto Rican Rum (Section 308) - American Samoa (Sec. 309) - Mine Rescue Teams (Sec. 310) - Mine Safety Equipment (Sec. 311) - Domestic Production Activities in Puerto Rico (Sec. 312) - Indian Tribes (Sec. 314, 315) - Railroads (Sec. 316) - Auto Racing Tracks (317) - District of Columbia (Sec. 322) - Wool Research (Sec. 325) Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), chairman of ...

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Senate Speeches on Bailout Bill
calculatedrisk.blogspot.com 10/1/2008 — For those with infinite patience, here is the live feed from C-SPAN2. The vote will probably be early this evening. UPDATE: Here is the full text of the bill. The Senate added the bailout to another bill and there are some weird provisions. This is ...

Say No To The Senate Bailout Bill
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What's in the Bill?
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Will McCain Vote For An Alaska-Friendly Earmark In The Senate Bailout Bill?
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Breaking: Senate to Take Up Bailout Bill Tomorrow
firedoglake.com 10/1/2008 — Pork for the Bankers Just got the word that the Senate is going to vote on the bailout bill tomorrow. The changes are apparently mainly in the area of loading it up with pork to grease its passage. Odds of passage? Pretty high. The idea is to get it passed in the Senate and then see ...

Bailout Binge: Senate Porkers Know Not Shame
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The Meeting
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Amid Crisis, Senate Sends Fatter Spending Bill To President Bush
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And now $25 billion to Detroit
politico.com 9/29/2008 — Mike Allen writes in with a few particulars on a story that's big news in its own right, but has been overshadowed by the Wall Street bailout: Banking wasn’t the only industry to get a hand from Congress this weekend. The Senate on ...

Everything going down
politico.com 9/29/2008 — The House's homepage, www.house.gov has been down since at least the vote. That's like there being no alcohol in a bar. Plus, the Senate homepage is just dandy. The Bailout Bill goes down. The Dow goes down. House.gov goes down. Everything is going down.

Pelosi, Reid extend olive branch to Bush
politico.com 10/1/2008 — Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are reaching out to the White House in a renewed push to rally support for the economic bailout bill, saying in a letter to the president that "we are confident we will pass a ...

Senate Tweaks Bailout, Now Likely To Pass
openleft.com 10/1/2008 — The Senate has tweaked the bailout bill, and is likely to pass it tomorrow. The tweaks include point #5 of the "No Bailout Act," plus a range of not very offensive tax cuts. It still contains the original flaw of the plan--its enormous size that hands ...

Senators, Beware!
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Bailout Bill Language, Senate Version
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Hoyer ‘disappointed’ with Senate version of bailout
politico.com 10/1/2008 — House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Wednesday he was “personally disappointed” that the Senate added a package of tax breaks to the bailout bill. However, Hoyer said he had spoken to House Minority Whip Roy Blunt “four or ...

TAKE ACTION: Demand Senate Pass the Sanders Millionaire Tax Amendment TODAY
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Government by Dow
dailykos.com 10/2/2008 — So the Dow has been down today (much of it by triple digits) as the Senate mulls the bailout bill. Given that we've now evolved into "government by Dow", that means the markets disapprove of the bailout and it should fail, right? I'm just trying to ...

Senate 'Bailout' Bill a Bizarre Blend Indeed
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Michele Bachmann: The Wrong Bill For What Ails Us
townhall.com 10/3/2008 — The bailout bill that the U.S. Senate passed late Wednesday night is not the remedy for what ails this nation's economy. While we are all anxious to take action to help America recover from it's current financial...

House Bailout Vote Encore — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed

Round two, coming up. A bailout bill that was defeated in the House on Monday gets a second chance tomorrow, this time with the added support of tax breaks, additional FDIC insurance and the passage of the bailout bill in the Senate . HOUSE BAILOUT BILL -- H.R. 1424 FULL TEXT (PDF) ...

Full text of the Senate bailout bill now available online -- and you can comment! — Corrente

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Bailout: Senate to Vote on Wednesday — Calculated Risk

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Staff Summary of Bailout Bill — Discourse.net

I previously posted a link to a (locally hosted) copy of the Bailout Bill, aka the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act . For those who can't wade through the 100+ pages on very short notice, here's the text of a brief staff summary, as provided by the Senate Majority Leader's office. ...

Rep. Brad Sherman: Martial Law If Bailout Bill Not Passed — Pirate's Cove

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This information is being passed around the Hill:As you know, and since a number of offices have asked for more details, the Senate is attaching the Treasury bailout to the AMT patch/tax extenders bill (H.R. 6049) that passed the Senate 93-2 last week. Note that this language contains far more ...