After the House reversed course and gave final approval to the $700 billion economic bailout package, President Bush quickly signed it into law Friday, authorizing the Treasury to undertake what could become the most expensive government intervention in history. ...more

October 4, 2008

Even as a huge bipartisan majority in the Senate voted Saturday to send a sprawling housing bill to the White House, economists, consumer advocates and other analysts said the package of programs for cash-strapped homeowners and shaken mortgage lenders is unlikely to relieve the foreclosure crisis that is driving the nation toward recession. ...more

July 27, 2008

Two approaches at expanding and modernizing educational benefits to military veterans through a new GI bill are clashing in both the U.S. House and Senate. ...more

May 8, 2008