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Automakers face skeptics on aid plan

Published December 5, 2008, 12:23 am, New Haven Register

WASHINGTON - U.S. automakers drew fresh skepticism from lawmakers Thursday in a rocky confrontation over their pleas for an expanded $34 billion rescue package they say they need to survive. Congressional analysts said one bailout plan under consideration would fall short of what the carmakers want.

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