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With oil prices at just about $103 a barrel, some members of Congress are asking President Obama to open the nation's strategic oil reserve in an effort to bring down the cost of gasoline.

If members of Congress were taking a tax policy course, chances are good they'd get an "F."

Some members of Congress want stiff penalties levied against China for manipulating the value of its currency to boost its exports and make U.S. imports harder to sell.

Bob Moon reports.

Company executives are forbidden from trading stocks using insider knowledge, but no such law exists to prevent members of Congress from doing so.

Steve Henn reports.

The Dow fell a dramatic 777 points today -- the worst plunge in two decades -- on news that the House rejected the $700 billion bailout plan.

Kai Ryssdal asks two members of Congress to help make sense of it all.

While key members of Congress claimed agreement today on the massive bailout plan to rescue America's financial system, conflicts were still evident.

Marketplace's John Dimsdale shares the details with Kai Ryssdal.