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Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA). It is also referred to by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson as a Troubled Asset Relief Program or TARP

It had bi-partisan support.

HR 3997 is the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. The bill is to "provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, and for other purposes." It was introduced September 28, 2008.

Office of Economic Stabilization was created in 1942.