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McCullough said that 1,730 students are currently paying under the monthly plan. At press time, 41 had signed Sing’s online petition...

Author: By Pooja Venkatraman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Protest Termbill Charge | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

...that all of Paulson's predictions come true, leaving the cost to the Federal Government far greater than the risky $700 billion investment in the private sector. If this comes to pass, the historians will find many people to blame: Paulson and President Bush for failing to explain the plan better. The House leadership for failing to whip enough votes. Even the presidential candidates for failing to use their bully pulpit to force the issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bailout Defeat: A Political Credibility Crisis | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

Republicans and Democrats talked a lot over the past few days about putting aside their partisan differences for the good of the country to pass a financial markets rescue plan. But they mostly appeared to agree on one thing: that even if they were going to support it, no one much liked the $700 billion bailout bill they had negotiated with the Bush Administration, and certainly no one much wanted to take any credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of a Legislative Meltdown | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

...Republican support, dropping several provisions important to Democrats. By 2:05 the vote was done, failing to pass by a margin of 228-205. In the end, Republicans delivered 37%, or 65 of their 199 members, compared with 60% of House Democrats who voted for President Bush's "rescue" plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of a Legislative Meltdown | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

...House, sent a letter to the group's 100-plus members advocating their involvement in a solution. "House conservatives have authored many alternatives that would work if only the Administration and the Democrat majority are willing to meet us halfway," Hensarling wrote. Representative Darrell Issa pushed a plan that he has advocated since the beginning of the meltdown to issue recovery bonds. And other ideas were also being touted again, such as loaning the money to Wall Street firms rather than buying their toxic mortgage-backed assets, plus an insurance scheme whereby Wall Street firms would pay to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of a Legislative Meltdown | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

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