That actually was bothering me, but now it makes sense. However, because of all the additions, it will now have to be passed back to the House for re-approval. Any changes made in the House, should it pass, will subsequently have to passed back to the Senate for THEIR re-approval, and so on and so forth until the Senate approves of the bill without any additional changes. The House gets to start the motion on any topic dealing with money, but the Senate needs to give final approval on the finished product.

Has it actually passed yet, or when is it going up for approval?

Seems like it passed Senate last night.

Sometimes I wonder what it'd be like if Ron Paul actually (somehow) won the Republican nomination. Given this particular bailout issue one could feasibly imagine him having a field day against Obama. I'm honestly surprised we haven't heard more from him in recent days, he must be angry about this.

and Russia claims victory for our government's mistake...

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/...ope/russia.php

It passed last night as a rider on a bill that gives expanded health care for the mentally ill, thus giving you the 450 pages. Not all of it is pork, the only bit of it that was was the business tax breaks, which in turn makes it harder to pay the bailout back.

I like how our debt ceiling has now officially doubled over the last 8 years.

There are particular reasons why this bill should be passed, but I'd honestly wish they'd just recapitalize the banking system instead of throwing money at Wall Street and leaving them to their business. It already seems a bit late, considering the already in progress credit crunch.

It's also dubiously ridiculous the way congress played 700 Billion Dollar football with this bill, attaching it to all the fluff and nonsense they could to swing stubborn ass reps.

Just passed 100% this morning, I believe. I almost got excited that it would fail, but as the democrats said they basically had a gun to their heads.

Wow, just keeps getting worse and worse. On top of the major economics issues, major insurance companies have taken a huge hit in stock value because people panicked over Sen. Harry Reid making a boneheaded statement before the senate passed the bill. Is there some way we can replace all our legislators with cats and dogs? They'd be so much more effective at running this country.

What gun? The only metaphorical gun on anyone that I can see is the massive public outcry against the bailout. All the claims that anyone would pay a political price for blocking it are wishful thinking on the part of pro-bailout pundits.