[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Pages 22982-22983]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              THE BAILOUT

  Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I wish to say how pleased and, frankly, 
relieved I am that the negotiators have reached an agreement on the 
economic rescue plan for our country. I found, as people began to be 
terribly anxious, justifiably, around our country, about their life 
savings, about their businesses, about their jobs, I was getting two 
messages from the public. One was their fear that we would not act to 
rescue our economy and them, and then their second fear was about what 
we would do to rescue our economy and

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them. The negotiators have both come up with a plan that will rescue 
our economy, will protect our taxpayers. In it, I am proud to say, is a 
proposal somewhat similar to one that Senator Cantwell and I put 
forward for a 9/11-type commission to review the regulations of our 
financial institutions, to reform them so we learn from this crisis 
and, to the best of our ability, we make sure it never happens again.
  I yield the floor.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from South Dakota.

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