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Senate Bailout Vote

The United States Senate voted on, and approved, the proposed $700 billion bailout bill on October 1, 2008. Senate to Vote on Rescue Plan Wednesday On the day of the historic vote in the Senate on the bailout bill, several so-called "sweeteners" ...
The title of a recently released CBS Nes article is " The administration (specifically Treasury Secreary Geithner) may "urge" Congress, but can he convince them?According to CBS, "In a speech in New York, Geithner said the country will never again have to ...
Obama says he'll call GOP's bluff on deficit talk and offer `a bunch of ideas' of his ownPresident Barack Obama has a warning for Republicans who denounce the federal deficit but reject proposals to cut it.Obama tells CBS, "I'm going to call ...
Vice President Joe Biden asserted in an interview Wednesday that taxpayers have "In an interview broadcast on CBS's "The Early Show," Biden defended the program against accusations by Republicans critics that it hasn't been the job-manufacturing machine the administration promised to the ...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the United States should start recovering from recession next year if there is political will to finish the costly rescue of its shattered banking system. Hopes that the worst might be over for U.S. banking giants, ...

Stimulus money 'cannot be squandered': Biden

US Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday vowed accountability, saying the administration would withdraw stimulus money from states who do not use the funds as intended. I've been talking to the governors, the mayors," Biden told ABC News. "Charged by Obama to ...
With the government preparing to spend hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars on economic stimulus and bailouts for various industries, two new polls find that Americans have mixed opinions about the plans. A CBS News/New York Times poll found slightly less optimism ...

Obama demands stimulus action

US senators ramped up debate Tuesday on President Barack Obama's huge stimulus plan, now worth nearly 900 billion dollars, as Republican lawmakers insisted the package needed major changes.Obama was to undertake a media blitz later Tuesday to sell the plan to the ...
US senators ramped up debate Tuesday on President Barack Obama's huge stimulus plan, now worth nearly 900 billion dollars, as Republican lawmakers insisted the package needed major changes.Obama was to undertake a media blitz later Tuesday to sell the plan to the ...
US senators ramped up debate Tuesday on President Barack Obama's huge stimulus plan, now worth nearly 900 billion dollars, as Republican lawmakers insisted the package needed major changes.Obama was to undertake a media blitz later Tuesday to to sell the plan to ...
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