Showdown looming in Congress on auto industry rescue

Sunday, November 16, 2008 | 8:32 p.m. CST

WASHINGTON — Hardline opponents of an auto industry bailout branded the industry a "dinosaur" whose "day of reckoning" is near, while Democrats pledged Sunday to do their best to get Detroit a slice of the $700 billion Wall Street rescue in this week's lame-duck session of Congress.

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