High-stakes US rescue vote - ft.com

Financial Times, 21/09/2008

A high stakes game of political poker was under way in Washington on Sunday as Congress prepared to vote this week on a plan to create a $700bn fund to buy toxic assets from banks and thereby ease the credit squeeze. Democratic legislators pressed for a housing programme to be added to the bill and demanded assurances that President George W. Bush would not veto a subsequent second stimulus bill.