Black Lawmakers on the Bailout

Kenneth Miller, Los Angeles Sentinel

Democrats and Republicans were not the only ones divided by a massive $700-billion bailout plan that faltered this week just as Congress was to break for a two day Jewish holiday.

African American members of Congress on the Democrat side of the aisle also differed on the critical plan that could have lingering effects on the ordinary Black American for years to come.

With much of the finger pointing aimed at outgoing President George W. Bush, the United States House of Representatives will come to order Thursday Oct.2 in hopes of hammering out a proposal that the majority of them deem essential.

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