Democratic Leaders Praise Obama on Bailout Passage
03 October 2008 10:48 am by Taylor Marsh
BY TAYLOR MARSH
I’m choking on it.
VOTE: 263 – 171
In a dramatic reversal, the House today approved by a comfortable margin a $700 billion financial rescue package that will bring the greatest intervention of the federal government into the private marketplace since the Great Depression, attempting to prevent the economy from sliding into a deep recession.
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