NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Lawmakers challenged Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on his handling of the $700 billion bank bailout program and stressed the importance of doing more to help homeowners.

WASHINGTON — The US government imposed harsh terms for a bailout of AIG during the 2008 financial crisis in order to prevent the ... former Treasury Secretary Henry “Hank” Paulson said on ...

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Sunday that the nation's still-frozen credit markets are very fragile and Congress must move quickly to pass a $700 billion bailout package for financial firms.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke got beaten up pretty badly in the House Financial Services Committee yesterday. And on at least one point, I think ...

Henry M. Paulson Jr., the financial firefighter stationed at the epicenter of the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, worries that the nation is headed for another crisis because ...

Does the Constitution have any role in the intense debate and blowback surrounding Secretary Henry Paulson’s $700 billion bailout proposal? There is nothing in our founding document that ...

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson sold the $700 billion financial bailout to Congress by insisting that emergency cash was needed to get rotting mortgage and other assets off banks’ balance ...

Faced with exasperated lawmakers upset by shifts in bailout strategy, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson launched a spirited defense Tuesday of his handling of the $700 billion program and expressed ...

Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson led the government's takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in September 2008 after Congress granted the Treasury emergency powers to stabilize the ...

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has presented his $700 billion bailout plan as the only solution to the financial crisis because he believes that what is needed is a fix both fast and furious.

WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson won't ask Congress, which meets in a rare lame duck session this week, for permission to tap into $350 billion in remaining funds under the sweeping ...