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摘要

As BusinessWeek went to press on Dec. 10, the House passed a plan to provide the U.S. auto industry with a $14 billion bridge loan (to the Obama Administration, a wag might say). On Capitol Hill resistance wasrnmounting from some Republican senators who said they were prepared to filibuster. But if you talk to Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the powerful chairman of the House Financial Services Committee-as I did on Dec. 9-the only question is whether Detroit will be bailed out while President Bush is still in office or whether the rescue must wait for Barack Obama.