Yesterday, President Bush signed legislation Congress passed to rescue the nation's financial system. Earlier this week, we asked readers how they wanted their congressmen, Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes and Wayne Gilchrest, to vote. Here's what they said.

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The stock market down turn is kind of like a financial 9/11. If nothing else, it should bring the money changers back to the reality of extending credit to those who can least afford it, is a bad business practice.

Not that they did not know that premise, they surely did. But with the urging of the political left in the 1990s, and poor oversight, the money...