Senate candidate Mark Kirk wants to halt the financial bailout, which he originally supported.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Senate candidate Mark Kirk wants to halt the financial bailout, which he originally supported. The Republican is scheduled to deliver a speech on government spending Monday in Springfield. Aides say he’ll propose canceling any unspent money from the $700 billion fund known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program. In remarks prepared for the speech, Kirk says he doesn’t want to "spend more money that we do not have." The government invested money in failing banks and automakers to keep them afloat, but the program ends Oct. 3. Kirk, a five-term congressman, supported the program when the U.S. House voted on it two years ago. Kirk is running against Democrat Alexi Giannoulias (jeh-NOO’-lee-us). Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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