Bush Urges Action on Bailout Plan

• By Keith Koffler
• Roll Call Staff
• Sept. 24, 2008, 10:14 p.m.

President Bush tonight used the highest bully pulpit he has – a primetime address from the White House – to salvage his plan to provide a $700 billion bailout to buy up bad mortgages from banks, suggesting Congress and the American people must agree to it or witness crippling damage to the economy.