The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 gives Paulson, 62, immediate authority to buy as much as $250 billion in troubled assets from banks and other financial institutions. The White House may expand the program by another $100 billion, and the Treasury can access the remaining $350 billion with Congressional consultation.

Bloomberg

95% of the American public did not support this. The house and senate web sites were going down from all the email traffic of citizens against the bill and yet it still passed. If there were ever any doubt, we now know who our representatives actually represent.

List of Senate votes (Feinstein (D-CA), Yea)
List of House votes (Pelosi (D-CA), Yea)

In the house, this was an overwhelmingly Democratic Party bill. I'd like to see an analysis of which representatives are getting bribes (aka campaign funding) from Wall Street.