Were confirmation needed that the American public is in a sour mood, the 2010 midterm elections provided it. As both pre-election<span> and </span>post-election<span> surveys made clear, Americans are not only strongly dissatisfied with the state of the economy and the direction in which the country is headed, but with government efforts to improve them. As the Pew Research Center’s </span>analysis of exit poll data<span> concluded, “the outcome of this year’s election represented a repudiation of the political status quo…. Fully 74% said they were either angry or dissatisfied with the federal government, and 73% disapproved of the job Congress is doing.”</span>
Early farmers who cultivated crops and domesticated animals faced a greater risk of early death due to water contamination and animal-borne diseases.
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.
A) He criticized Washington's passive and cautious ways.
