bailout bill

October 3, 2008 - 9:14am

Pelosi gives one last impassioned speech before Wall Street bailout is passed by House

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, not wanting a repeat of Monday's failed vote on the $700 billion Wall Street bailout package, implored her colleagues to vote for the measure a second time early Friday afternoon.

Her entreaties paid off as the rescue bill was passed.263 to 171. 

The San Francisco Democrat promised that inquiries into how the nation got into the mess in the first place would be carried out.

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