"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the $700 billion accord just after midnight but said it still has to be put on paper.
"We've still got more to do to finalize it, but I think we're there," said Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who also participated in the negotiations in the Capitol.
"We worked out everything," said Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., the chief Senate Republican in the talks."
Wasn't there a deal last week?
Screwballs...every one of them.
Wasn't there a deal last week?
Yup - I got to be the one who posted it first on FR back then. It was in response to McCain saying he was putting his campaign and the debate on hold, to come back to Washington. The Democrat response was roughly "we don't need no stinkin' McCain - he should stay the h*** out of town." (and expressed only slightly more politely.)