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Let's Divert Green $$$ to Aid Autos: White House

Perino slams Dem plan to use bailout money

By Neal Colgrass, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 14, 2008 7:45 PM CST

(Newser) – The White House urged Congress today to prop up the Big Three automakers with $25 billion in federal funding—and nix environmental provisions attached to that money, the Wall Street Journal reports. Approved last year, the dollars were designated to help carmakers convert to more... Read full story »

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