WASHINGTON - The Bush administration asked Congress on Saturday for the power to buy $700 billion in toxic assets clogging the financial system and threatening the economy as negotiations began on the largest bailout since the Great Depression.
Bush asks Congress for the power to buy toxic assets
Saturday, September 20, 2008 | 6:04 p.m. CDT;
updated 10:59 p.m. CDT, Saturday, September 20, 2008
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