主题：【原创】【美国大选手记五十六】再出险招，麦凯恩临危一搏 -- 尼伯龙根·蜗藤

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/business/26bailout.html?hp

In the Roosevelt Room after the session, the Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr. literally bent down on one knee as he pleaded with Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker, not to “blow it up” by withdrawing her party’s support for the package over what Ms. Pelosi derided as a Republican betrayal.

“I didn’t know you were Catholic,” Ms. Pelosi said, a wry reference to Mr. Paulson’s kneeling, according to someone who observed the exchange. She went on: “It’s not me blowing this up, it’s the Republicans.”

Mr. Paulson sighed. “I know. I know.”

真是想不到，最后关头，阻止通过的居然是共和党……

美共和黨議員倡新救市方案

(明報)9月26日 星期五 13:05

美國 共和黨一批眾議院議員提出另一個救市方案，提出為房貸擔保證券提供保險。

雖然早前有指美國國會兩院已就救市方案達成原則性共識，但共和黨一批議員突然提出另一個救市方案，要求針對房貸擔保證券成立保險基金，而非由納稅人出錢收購這些證券。(彭博通訊社)