Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Candidates push for bipartisan financial rescue

Both support raising the deposit insurance limit from $100,000 to $250,000

WASHINGTON - Presidential rivals Barack Obama and John McCain on Tuesday appealed for bipartisanship on a plan to save America's collapsing financial sector at the same time they accused each other of supporting policies that would make a bad situation worse.

Both avoided calling the plan a bailout a day after the stock market chalked up a record one-day point decline as Congress rejected the $700 billion rescue effort. They separately proposed that the government insure consumers' bank deposits up to $250,000, over the current $100,000 limit, to boost Americans' faith in weakened banks.

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