They even tried and failed to get a suspension included in the bailout bill.
German taxpayers are footing the biggest bailout bill and want fiscal austerity, central budget review and compliance.
Financial stocks on a whole fell hard after the bailout bill's passage after leading earlier in the day.
The group's top lobbyist, Bruce Josten, says it's now in "full-court press mode" to get the bailout bill passed immediately.
The House of Representatives' initial vote against the bailout bill--not Bush's remarks that day--contributed to the Dow's 7% drop Sept. 29.
Here's a time-honored way to gauge how the House of Representatives will vote on the bailout bill Friday: Follow the money.
The bailout and nationalization of GM in December of 2008 came shortly after the great banks bailout bill passed in October.
R. 1424, the financial bailout bill signed by President Bush in 2008.
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The immediate cause of the cash catastrophe was the failure of the House of Representatives to pass the Wall Street bailout bill.
Despite Secretary Paulson's urging Monday, the bailout bill does not give him the power to force banks to lend the money they receive.
He encouraged the 750 solar-related companies he represents to call their representatives and push for inclusion of renewable energy legislation in the bailout bill.
More than likely, something akin to the administration's bailout plan--with a few Democratic add-ons--will emerge during the next few days as the final bailout bill.
The last time oil was this high was Sept. 26, 2008, the last trading day before the U.S. House rejected the first bank bailout bill.
The House easily passed the bailout bill earlier this week, but it quickly ran into trouble in the Senate, where Republicans objected to several provisions.
Houston's oil execs might not appreciate that much of the funding of the bailout bill's green energy provisions will come through raising taxes on oil and gas production.
Chris Dodd, D-Connecticut, told CNN last week that someone at the Treasury Department told him to put in the language in the bailout bill allowing for executive bonuses.
Pastor, a former Carter official and Clinton adviser who persuaded Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn to introduce a Mexico financial bailout bill, is not the type who whistles Dixie.
Since those events, in which four planes were hijacked and crashed, the number of passengers flying has plummeted, leading President Bush to sign an industry bailout bill over the weekend.
In this fall's bank bailout bill, a provision was added to renew many of these tax credits for eight years--but tax credits for wind-produced energy were extended only through 2009.
The actions taken by the Treasury Tuesday fall under the rubric of the Troubled Assets Relief Program that is the centerpiece of the bailout bill Congress passed earlier this month.
Anxiousness over Washington's bailout bill, coupled with fears of a global economic slowdown -- neither of which can exactly be called news -- seemed to be behind the decline .
Friday's trading was defined by the U.S. House of Representatives' passage of the massive and incentive-fill revised bailout bill, sending it to President George Bush who is sure to sign in.
The eruption of bipartisan ire over the failed financial bailout bill Monday cast doubt over the green energy industry that Congress would be able to pass anything until after next year's presidential inauguration.
During the contentious 2008 financial bailout bill -- commonly referred to as TARP -- McConnell and Reid worked hard to get a compromise bill passed despite tough opposition from both sides of the aisle.
Recent shenanigans over the bailout bill defied credibility.
They have benefited from the rush to issue gilts by Her Majesty's government as they seek to raise the finance to pay the bill for the bank bailout.
The wider implications of Friday's downgrades in Europe were also being digested, with the sovereign-backed European Financial Stability Facility's borrowing costs nudging higher ahead of Tuesday's scheduled treasury bill sale by the bailout fund.
Last week in the speech that the President gave up at New York City at Cooper Union, he talked about how Republicans were saying things about the financial reform bill that were not true involving the bailout, in his perspective, and he also decried the battalions of lobbyists that have been sent to defeat the bill.
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