The bosses of the ‘Big Three’ US car makers yesterday returned to Detroit empty-handed as Congress put bail-out plans on hold.
A bipartisan group of senators, including Michigan's Carl Levin, put forward a plan earlier in the day to allow the retargeting of the $25bn ‘green’ package intended for factory modernisation.
But the proposal was knocked back by speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate majority leader Harry Reid, who said: "no one has come up with a plan that can pass the House and...
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