Baltimore HUD Homes News

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson spent two years building relations on Capitol Hill. Many of them came crashing down this past week.

Amid the tumult sparked by the administration's $700 billion economic-rescue package that cleared Congress Friday, an increasing number of lawmakers are questioning Mr. Paulson's handling of the situation, criticizing the bare-bones request he initially sent to Congress and the way he struggled to make the proposal palatable to Main Street.

Paulson's Stature Takes a Beating Among Lawmakers