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• Unconvinced Congress Tables Auto Decision

  With two of Detroit's Big Three automakers teetering on the brink of collapse, congressional leaders yesterday refused to advance a proposal for a federal bailout, saying auto industry executives had failed to persuade lawmakers that they would make good use of the money. Posted Nov 20 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, Wall Street, U.S. Federal Reserve, United States, The White House, U.S. Department of the Treasury, General Motors Corporation, Harry Reid, Barack Obama, Robert Bennett, John Dingell, Christopher Dodd, Nancy Pelosi, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, Barney Frank, Dan Eggen, Capitol Hill, Detroit, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Chrysler Holding LLC, Congress, Global Insight Inc., Toyota Corolla, North America, Bob Corker, Carl Levin, Henry Waxman, GMAC LLC, Decision, auto, Bob Nardelli, Kirk Kerkorian, Honda Civic, Rick Wagoner, Chevrolet Volt, Aaron Bragman, Automotive Consulting Group, Dennis Virag, Searchlight (Nevada), Jerome York, Unconvinced, Chevrolet Cruze, Tables

• FDIC Details Plan To Alter Mortgages

  Officials at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. yesterday detailed a plan to prevent 1.5 million foreclosures in the next year by offering financial incentives to companies that agree to sharply reduce monthly payments on mortgage loans. Posted Nov 13 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: to, Henry M. Paulson, Bank of America Corporation, California, Barack Obama, Freddie Mac Holdings, Fannie Mae, Christopher Dodd, Mortgages, Credit Suisse Group, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Plan, Sheila Bair, FDIC, Details, Alter, IndyMac Bancorp Inc., Anne Finucane, Richard Brown

• Obama Ties Automaker Rescue to Regulation

  Top advisers to President-elect Barack Obama are helping to draft an auto industry rescue plan that would bring new government oversight, including the possibility of an auto czar who could ensure the money was being used wisely. Posted Nov 13 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: to, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Henry M. Paulson, California, Barclays plc, Bloomberg LP, Citigroup Inc., U.S. Department of the Treasury, Rescue, General Motors Corporation, Barack Obama, Obama, Christopher Dodd, Julie Tate, Detroit, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Regulation, Chrysler Holding LLC, Chuck Grassley, Lori Montgomery, Ties, United Auto Workers, U.S. Department of Energy, University of California-Berkeley, Bob Nardelli, Lee Iacocca, Cerberus Capital Management LP, Brian A. Johnson, Harley Shaiken, Himanshu Patel, Ken W. Cole, Automaker, Itay Michaeli

• Emanuel to Be Chief of Staff

  President-elect Barack Obama made the first appointment of his new administration yesterday, choosing Rep. Rahm Emanuel to serve as White House chief of staff when he takes office in January. Posted Nov 06 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, United States, to, Google Inc., The White House, George W. Bush, of, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Connecticut, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Be, Iraq, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Illinois, Michigan, Chicago, Chief, John Kerry, Caroline Kennedy, David Axelrod, Iran, Christopher Dodd, Natural Resources Defense Council, Mike McConnell, Robert Gates, Staff, Central Intelligence Agency, John Boehner, Rahm Emanuel, Pakistan, Eric Schmidt, U.S. Department of Energy, Sierra Club, Juliet Eilperin, Robert Gibbs, William Donaldson, Joseph Biden, Michael A. Fletcher, Richard Danzig, Xerox Corporation, Luis Gutierrez, California Air Resources Board, Michael Morell, White Plains, Sam Nunn, Emanuel, Pace Law School, Anne M. Mulcahy, Kathleen McGinty, Lisa Renstrom, Mary D. Nichols, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Robert Wexler, Waterkeeper Alliance, David Bonior, Ian Bowles

• Treasury Considers Backing Mortgages

  The federal government may start guaranteeing home mortgages to persuade lenders to ease the monthly financial burden on struggling homeowners, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila C. Bair said yesterday. Posted Oct 23 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Wall Street, Henry M. Paulson, RealtyTrac Inc., National Community Reinvestment Coalition, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Freddie Mac Holdings, Fannie Mae, Renae Merle, Christopher Dodd, Mortgages, Richard Shelby, Capitol Hill, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Considers, Treasury, Bob Casey, Robert Menendez, James Lockhart, John Taylor, Backing, Sheila C. Bair, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Neel Kashkari

• Executive Pay Limits May Prove Minimal

  With the nation's largest banks set to receive an unprecedented infusion of public funds, lawmakers boasted yesterday that the top executives will for the first time face federal limits on their multimillion-dollar pay packages. But outside analysts and the banks themselves said the new limits are... Posted Oct 14 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Wall Street, Henry M. Paulson, David Cho, Pay, Charles Schumer, Christopher Dodd, Nancy Pelosi, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, Barney Frank, May, Julie Tate, Max Baucus, Executive, Paul Kane, Prove, Limits, Binyamin Appelbaum, Amit Paley, Minimal, Brian Foley

• Paulson's Change in Rescue Tactics

  Even as President Bush signed the $700 billion rescue plan for the financial system two Fridays ago, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. was beginning to realize that the way he had planned to spend the money might not fix the meltdown in global markets. Posted Oct 14 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: U.S. Federal Reserve, United States, Ben Bernanke, Henry M. Paulson, In, George W. Bush, Change, Wells Fargo & Company, Rescue, Freddie Mac Holdings, Fannie Mae, Japan, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Christopher Dodd, Wachovia Corporation, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, General Electric Company, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Paulson's, Warren Buffett, John Dugan, Paul Kane, American International Group Inc., Roy Blunt, Binyamin Appelbaum, Tactics

• With No Plan B, House Reluctantly Passes Politically Risky Measure

  Henry M. Paulson Jr. was in his corner office in the Treasury Department on Monday afternoon, too nervous to turn on his television, when his chief of staff poked his head into the Treasury secretary's office to tell him the stunning news playing out on Capitol Hill: The House had just defeated the... Posted Oct 03 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, Wall Street, U.S. Federal Reserve, United States, Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., Ben Bernanke, Henry M. Paulson, Maryland, The White House, Dick Cheney, Indiana, Texas, George W. Bush, California, Wells Fargo & Company, Cleveland, Lehman Brothers Inc., U.S. Department of the Treasury, With, Mortgage Bankers Association, No, Charles Schumer, Harry Reid, Steny Hoyer, Neil Irwin, John McCain, U.S. Republican Party, Barack Obama, Tennessee, World Trade Center, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Germany, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Christopher Dodd, Nancy Pelosi, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, Barney Frank, American Bankers Association, Wachovia Corporation, Capitol Hill, North Carolina, Dick Durbin, Plan, Max Baucus, Charlotte, AARP, John Boehner, Rahm Emanuel, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Elijah Cummings, Abraham Lincoln, House, David Maraniss, Mark Vitner, Michael Abramowitz, Passes, Kent Conrad, Mitch McConnell, Measure, Drew Greenblatt, Republican Study Committee, Jeb Hensarling, Roy Blunt, Joshua Bolten, Zachary A. Goldfarb, Risky, Louie Gohmert, Midland (Texas), Mike Pence, Plan B. The Treasury Department, Betty Sutton, Volkswagen AG, Brad Sherman, Joseph Crowley, Kuhl Jr., Rayburn House Office Building, Skeptics' Caucus, Sue Myrick, Politically, Zach Wamp, Kermit High School, B,, Ellen Tauscher, Paulson's Treasury, Chattanooga, Mike Conaway, Reluctantly, Brian Gaston

• Senate Approves Bailout

  The Senate last night easily approved a massive plan to shore up the U.S. financial system, but the measure faces a tougher test tomorrow in the House, where leaders will try to reverse the stunning defeat the legislation suffered earlier this week. Posted Oct 01 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, Wall Street, United States, Henry M. Paulson, The White House, Dow Jones & Co. Inc., Bailout, Harry Reid, Steny Hoyer, John McCain, U.S. Republican Party, Barack Obama, Edward M. Kennedy, Christopher Dodd, Nancy Pelosi, Dan Eggen, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Approves, Senate, U.S. Congress Joint Committee on Taxation, Franklin D. Roosevelt, AARP, Jonathan Weisman, Mitch McConnell, Americans for Tax Reform, Republican Study Committee, Jeb Hensarling, Bill Novelli, Roger Wicker, Elizabeth Dole, Marsha Blackburn, John Shadegg, Pat Tiberi, Mary Landrieu, Michele Bachmann, Charles Boustany

• AIG Founder Wielded Personal Influence in Washington

  In the four decades that Maurice R. "Hank" Greenberg was at the helm of American International Group, he persuaded Washington to back him on many deals that helped his insurance company beat competitors and ultimately grow into the 18th-largest corporation in the world. Posted Sep 30 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, Wall Street, New York, United States, In, European Union, The White House, Florida, George W. Bush, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Carrie Johnson, Connecticut, Charles Schumer, George H.W. Bush, John McCain, Bill Clinton, China, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Christopher Dodd, Capitol Hill, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Julie Tate, Personal, Sarah Cohen, Influence, Center for Responsive Politics, Washington, Charles Rangel, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, United Nations, Robert Zoellick, William Cohen, Geneva, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Richard Ferlauto, American International Group Inc., World Trade Organization, Founder, City University of New York System, Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service, AIG, Sheila Krumholz, Richard Holbrooke, Reform Institute, Carla Anderson Hills, Christopher Lee, The Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, Starr Foundation, Wielded

• Lawmakers Revise Rescue Plan

  Prodded by a wave of angry calls from constituents, congressional leaders dialed back partisan bickering over the $700 billion Wall Street rescue plan yesterday and advanced modest changes to the legislation in an effort to win over House Republican holdouts. Posted Sep 30 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, Wall Street, United States, The White House, Florida, George W. Bush, Dow Jones & Co. Inc., Rescue, Harry Reid, Steny Hoyer, John McCain, U.S. Republican Party, Barack Obama, Tennessee, Christopher Dodd, Nancy Pelosi, American Bankers Association, Dan Eggen, Capitol Hill, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, North Carolina, Plan, Kentucky, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Lawmakers, Michael Steel, Judd Gregg, Roy Blunt, Lamar Alexander, Joshua Bolten, Sheila C. Bair, Revise, Ed Yingling, Allen Boyd, John Tanner, Bob Etheridge

• Debate Still in Limbo as Democrats Blame McCain For Interrupting Process

  The first debate between John McCain and Barack Obama, scheduled for tonight, remained in limbo last night after the presidential candidates left a White House meeting without a deal on a $700 billion economic rescue plan. Posted Sep 25 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, In, for, The White House, George W. Bush, Phoenix, As, John McCain, U.S. Republican Party, Cable News Network LP LLLP, FOX News Network LLC, Barack Obama, Blame, Bill Burton, McCain, Rick Davis, Steve Schmidt, Joseph Lieberman, ABC Inc., Christopher Dodd, Dan Eggen, Democrats, Capitol Hill, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Lindsey Graham, Still, Lori Montgomery, John Boehner, Newark, Debate, Hari Sevugan, Process, Jon Kyl, Brian Rogers, Paul Kane, Oxford, Mark Salter, Nancy Pfotenhauer, Evan Tracey, Commission on Presidential Debates, Robert G. Kaiser, Interrupting, Crystal City, Limbo, Russell Senate Office Building

• Candidates Give Negotiators a Push

  Delicate backroom negotiations over legislation for a massive Wall Street rescue were jolted yesterday by Sen. John McCain's sudden announcement that he would come to Washington to participate in the talks. But by day's end, Sen. Barack Obama's decision to join his rival at the White House in a show... Posted Sep 24 2008, 05:00 PM by