White House Dispatches Team to Push Economic Bill - Roll Call

Did you think that this financial mess was not planned?

White House Dispatches Team to Push Economic Bill - Roll Call:

"‘It shouldn’t take much analysis to remember what happened last week, which was a very serious freeze-up in our credit markets,’ Fratto said. ‘Our financial markets right now do not need uncertainty, they need increased certainty as to how this rescue plan is going to go forward — and that they can be sure that there is a plan to go forward — and that will begin the correction in our financial markets.’

Fratto insisted that the plan was not slapped together and had been drawn up as a contingency over previous months and weeks by administration officials. He acknowledged lawmakers were getting only days to peruse it, but he said this should be enough.

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