Word: sundays
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Wanted: someone who will claim credit for saving the U.S. economy. With little fanfare and all the enthusiasm of a hangover, congressional leaders from both parties on Sunday unveiled a detailed agreement on legislation to bail out Wall Street. But no presidential candidates were in sight, and few in Congress were doing much bragging about their handiwork...
...House minority leader John Boehner, and calling members on both sides of the aisle, urging them to support the deal. "I'm proud that we were able to get this done, and I'll give the credit to everybody else," McCain insisted on ABC's This Week on Sunday morning...
Around 12:30 a.m. Sunday morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the fundamentals of a deal between House and Senate leaders and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to stave off financial collapse on Wall Street after a week of frenzied Hill wrangling. Declaring the $700 billion bailout plan "a way to insulate Main Street and everyday Americans from the crisis on Wall Street," Pelosi unveiled the deal with House Republican Whip Roy Blunt and the ranking Republican from the Senate banking committee, Judd Gregg, as well as Paulson and other Democratic leaders...
...remained unclear, however, how rebellious House Republicans would receive the deal. GOP Presidential candidate John McCain said Sunday morning that he hoped to support the package once he saw the details, and he consulted by telephone with Paulson throughout the Saturday evening negotiations, as did Democrat Barack Obama. Obama released a statement early Sunday calling the deal necessary, but also, "the culmination of a sorry period in our history...
...until the weather added some unfriendly complications. With the Harvard golfers on the back nine, the course was deemed unplayable due to puddles of standing water on the greens. The round was halted, and the Crimson players went to sleep Saturday night unsure of what was to come Sunday. When the players came to the tee the following morning, they were informed that the first round scores had been wiped out and the tournament had been adjusted to a single round. “It’s natural to feel like you’ve had something taken away...