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House votes to restrict Wall Street pay: Congress acts to end million dollar bonuses paid with bailout money
The United States House of Representatives passed a bill that restricts bonuses to bank executives.
Nothing has enraged ordinary people more than the idea that the biggest banks used bailout money to pay huge bonuses to their executives.
The House voted Friday to slap restrictions on how Wall Street executives are paid after nine banks that took government bailout money rewarded thousands of their employees with bonuses topping $1 million each. House Votes
In the same year the banks were failing, and taking billions of dollars in bailout money, the banks were paying their executives million dollar bonuses. Read more
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