U.S. House Rejects $700 Billion Financial-Rescue Plan

In "bloomberg.com":

    Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The financial-rescue plan intended to restore confidence in the U.S. banking system collapsed in partisan wrangling as the House of Representatives voted down the proposal backed by the Bush administration and congressional leaders of both parties.

Markets plunged as the House rejected, by a vote of 228 to 205, the $700 billion measure to authorize the biggest government intervention in the markets since the Great Depression. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 564 points, or 5 percent to 10,579, at 3:05 p.m. New York time.

The defeat of the legislation set off a scramble among the plan's backers for additional support before another vote, which likely won't come until later in the week.