By CARL HULSE WASHINGTON - Members of Congress headed home this weekend to try to persuade constituents that they did the right thing on the economic bailout plan, a momentous vote that injected an unpredictable new element into the climactic final weeks of the campaign season.
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ers were left wondering what the race-by-race impact of the bailout would be.

By DAVID LIGHTMAN Everything America hates about Congress was on vivid display these last few weeks as members struggled to pass the $700 billion financial

The House of Representatives approved the $700 billion financial plan to bailout Wall Street Friday, 263 to 171.
Shortly after the House approved the bill, President Bush signed it into law, authorizing the Treasury to undertake the largest government bailout since the Great Depression.
ead of greatly increasing our national debt by over $700 billion, we should instead be looking at proposals to make tax credits available to private investor groups which agree to purchase bad loans," Smith said.