Obama readies road map for new bailout spending

Sunday, February 1, 2009

WASHINGTON -- President Obama promised Saturday to lower mortgage costs, offer job-creating loans for small businesses, get credit flowing and rein in free-spending executives as he readies a new road map for spending billions from the second installment of the financial rescue plan.

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