The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although there are no options attached we can say the following.
How does Congress react to Paulson requesting a bailout of US banks totaling over 7 billion dollars?
Congress acted against it, and the House of Representatives voted against Paulson requesting.
Let's remember the moment. It was September 20, 2008, when US Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, submitted this proposal to the lower house of Congress. The House of Representatives discussed the proposal but considered that it was a tax imposition for US citizens to try to save the bad decisions of the bankers. So on September 29, the House of Representatives voted against the proposal, and immediately the stock changes of the world -including the New York stock exchange, of course- plummeted.
President George W. Bush had to swiftly react and signed the EESA Act (the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to rescue the financial institutions and banks with $700 billion.
The correct answer is: "Planes dropped tons of supplies around the city each day."
The Berlin Blockade was one of the tense crisis that took place during the Cold War era. West Berlin, dominated jointly by the Western powers (US, UK and France) was embodied inside the German Democratic Republic, which was a communist republic under the influence of the URSS. In 1949, the soviets blocked the entry routes to West Berlin (railway, road, and canal accesses) so that supplies could not arrive to this area of the city.
The Western powers organized the denominated Berlin airlift, and the <u>supplies arrived in West Berlin by plane. </u>
