Auto makers return to Washington to ask for financial bailout

Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-CT, (L) shakes hands with Chrysler Chairman and CEO Robert Nardelli (R) as GM Chairman and CEO Richard Wagoner (LC) greets Sen. Robert Bennett, R-UT, after a Senate Banking Housing and Urban Affairs committee hearing about the state of the US automobile manufacturing industry on Capitol Hill in Washington on December 4, 2008. Chrysler, GM and Ford are asking Congress for billions of dollars to help the industry weather the current economic crises. At right is Ranking Member Sen. Richard Shelby, R-AL. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)