Bloomberg - Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Senate will try to salvage a $700 billion financial-rescue package after the measure was defeated in the House of Representatives. The lawmakers won't have a lot of room to negotiate.

AP - The Senate majority leader is putting pressure on other senators to vote quickly on a U.S.-India nuclear cooperation accord, even as opponents of the pact urge careful consideration of an endeavor that would reverse three decades of U.S. nuclear policy.

AFP - President George W. Bush battled Tuesday to save his 700-billion-dollar bailout of the US financial system after the House of Representatives rejected the plan, sending global stocks into a tailspin.

AP - Members of Congress traded more recriminations Tuesday over the stunning House vote that killed a $700 billion financial system, while insisting there's still time to get an acceptable deal.

AP - Two-thirds of Congress' most vulnerable members — Republicans and Democrats alike — chose to protect their seats on Election Day rather than follow their party leaders and vote for an unpopular economic bailout plan.

Reuters - The White House has begun to consider "small policy changes" that it hopes will garner the needed votes to resurrect a $700 billion financial bailout rejected by the House of Representatives on Monday, a top White House adviser said on Tuesday.

AP - Brother, can you spare a billion? More like $700 billion, to be precise.

Reuters - The White House on Tuesday said it was hopeful that a $700 billion financial bailout would pass Congress this week after the House of Representatives rejected it.

AFP - The US Senate is expected to vote on the landmark US-India civilian nuclear agreement on Wednesday in a bid to give final legislative endorsement to the deal, a top senator said Tuesday.

Reuters - The top Democrat and top Republican in the Senate on Tuesday promised swift action to pass a bipartisan financial rescue plan that the White House says is vital to protect all Americans as well as Wall Street.

AP - A day after the House defeat of a financial bailout plan that sent Wall Street into a frantic downward spiral, the Capitol was largely deserted Tuesday as Congress marked the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana.

AP - With the star witness against Sen. Ted Stevens due to testify Tuesday, prosecutors denied allegations they secretly shuttled another key witness back to Alaska so he wouldn't hurt their corruption case against the lawmaker.

AP - Two House Democrats are asking congressional investigators to examine U.S. exports to Iran to see whether approval procedures are being abused in light of a dramatic increase in the dollar value of shipments there over President Bush's first seven years in office.

Reuters - Stocks plunged on Monday in their biggest decline ever after U.S. lawmakers unexpectedly rejected a $700 billion financial bailout, spooking investors who fear for the future of global markets and the U.S. economy.