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Day Two: Big Three Now Asking Congress For $34 Billion
The Big Three are back on Capitol Hill today. This time their talking to Congress about getting a multi-billion dollar bailout package.
The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee says the new bleak unemployment figures makes helping the nation's beleaguered auto industry even more urgent.
Rep. Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, warned that doing nothing would be a disaster in the middle of what he called the worst economic crisis in 70 years.
Watch live video from today's hearing:
Katharine Zaleski has been the News Editor of the Huffington Post since May 2005.
| Also by Katharine Zaleski | |||
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