| Automakers plead for aid plan, but votes lacking (AP) [8 mins] AP - Imperiled automakers and their union worked feverishly Wednesday to sell a skeptical Congress on a $34 billion aid plan, promising labor concessions and restructuring. The Senate's Democratic leader said there still weren't enough votes to tap the $700 billion federal bailout fund to prop up the foundering Big Three. | Oil falls on poor economic data [48 mins] Oil prices fall after a barrage of bad economic data heightens fears of protracted global recession and declining demand. |