The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 commonly referred to as a  bailout of the U.S. financial system, is a law enacted subsequently to the  subprime mortgage crisis authorizing the United States Secretary of the Treasury  to spend up to $700 billion to purchase distressed assets, especially mortgage- backed ...
Sep 30, 2008 ... Negotiations weren't expected to resume immediately. The House reconvenes on  Thursday. Bailout Plan Rejected, Markets Plunge, Forcing New Scramble to  Solve Crisis. —Deborah Solomon, Tom Lauricella and Easha Anand contributed  to this article. Write to Sarah Lueck at sarah.lueck@wsj.com, ...
10 hours ago ... Here's Who Will Negotiate the Final Tax Bill From the House Side. House  Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.)  have named their picks to the conference committee that will negotiate a final tax  bill with the Senate. For the Republicans, Rep. Kevin Brady (R., Texas), ...
Jan 24, 2017 ... The risk that Schumer has introduced is that once negotiations start, Democrats  will get baited into accepting a Republican plan that won't look much like theirs at  all. While Trump himself .... Instead of infrastructure spending, Congress forked  over taxpayer money to bail out Wall Street. Democrats didn't ...
1 day ago ... GOP Tax Plan: Live Coverage ... have named their picks to the conference  committee that will negotiate a final tax bill with the Senate. For the ... However,  she signaled her flexibility just as some House Republicans made increasingly  clear the health-care bill in question did not yet have their support.
House Republicans "weren't part of the negotiations" on the Wall Street bailout plan.