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Bailout Bill: The Latest Christmas Tree

Last week, as White House officials were making the rounds on Capitol Hill to sell their $700 billion Wall Street bailout plan, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), a member of the Senate banking committee, made a vow: “We will not Christmas-tree this bill with extraneous amendments.”
Right.
Last night, the Senate passed a modified version of the administration’s [...]