House set for vote on massive financial bailout

Seeded on Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:13 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

Key supporters of a Wall Street bailout package prodded lawmakers to approve the plan hours ahead of a difficult House vote later Monday.

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Wrecked cruise ship passengers offered $14,460 plus travel, medical costs
Fri Jan 27, 2012
- breadex, your reasoning is flawed. The fact the Captain without corporate approval diverted from the route authorized by his employer is precisely why the company will not be liable for huge chunks of money.
Wrecked cruise ship passengers offered $14,460 plus travel, medical costs
Fri Jan 27, 2012
- If people would simply research and review the liability established by treaty they would have a better idea whether or not the offered sum is adequate. I'll give you a hint it's 46666 SDRs (Special Drawing Rights) or about $72K in the event of DEATH.
Letters from solitary confinement reveal DWI man's despair
Thu Jan 26, 2012
- NC open heart Yet another example of GOP policies bearing the fruit of failure
NFL's Ochocinco, US House speaker trade tweets
Thu Jan 26, 2012
- Obama's thought bubble... I hope the people are too stupid to realize none of what I am babbling on about will ever get through Congress and I'll just give in and sign legislation like I did with NDAA anyways.
NFL's Ochocinco, US House speaker trade tweets
Thu Jan 26, 2012
- Or,
Smuggling bust: 1,495 live turtles found in 2 suitcases
Thu Jan 26, 2012
- Maybe you should just google "turtle soup" and you'll find it's not just "these people". Fairly common down here. BTW there's quite the industry exporting turtles from here to Japan.
France arrests breast implant boss amid scare
Thu Jan 26, 2012
- I'm sure none of the women ending up with PIP implants specifically asked for the use of NON-MEDICAL grade silicone, i.e. industrial grade, to be used in their breast augmentation surgeries.
Man spends 2 years in solitary after DWI arrest
Wed Jan 25, 2012
- He got $22M for 2 years while the guy in Chicago who spent 16 years got $25M. Seems someone had a better lawyer.
5th person arrested in Megaupload case; no bail for mogul
Tue Jan 24, 2012
- AntiNSA, you do realize that Romney also donated around $8,000,000 to charities, right? Compare that with the average 3-6% most millionaires donate. Or the paltry $80,000 Newt managed to spare from his $3M.
We love our debit cards, but not our banks
Wed Jan 25, 2012
- AMLOR, everyone realizes banks are there to make money, however you appear to miss the point that they steered consumers to using debitcards in order to make money from their interchange fees along with fees they charge the merchants for even accepting cards and on top of that their goal was to save …

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I couldn't agree with you more or said it any better. Amen !
— tlee-1268841

Your right it seems that Jude the Dude blames everyone but himself. Its been almost 1 and half years and the only thing that has changed is the amount of dept created by this administration and his ability too, like Jude, blame everyone Else. Kindest Regards Zulu2
— zigmund

I am not sure what you were responding to, but I'd hazard a guess that no matter who was President after 9/11 would have responded in the same fashion that Bush did. How quickly everyone forgets how demanding they all were after 9/11 in clamoring for revenge.
— Voter-in-LA

Voter-in-LA, You are forgetting Bush's and the Republicans' war ( Weapons of Mass Destruction), that's draining the country more than any welfare, or Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac or Acorn. Bush was not looking for terrorists, the man's was interested in oil. I love the way some of you think, keep it up, if America continues to lose jobs as it's doing today, our tomorrows will soon cede to exist. Well, we won't have to worry about our children, or our children's children paying taxes on this money or any other, will we.
— Mary Robertson