Financial Bailout: 102 pages and counting
By Bill Allison Sep 27 2008 2:36 a.m. 1 commentThis Associated Press report is a little like the early going of an Eric Ambler thriller: a tantalizing hint of the complexity to come, but very little detail about what the twists and turns will be. The market meltdown measure, which began its life as a 3-page bill, has grown:
...after almost a week of marathon talks between Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and key lawmakers in both parties, the working version was up to 102 pages.
We're going to need to add a lot of text to Public Markup.
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