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After being pilloried for flying corporate jets to Washington to beg for public funds to keep their companies afloat, Detroit executives are making the second trip to the capitol by car.

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Former AIG chief Hank Greenberg has railed against the FedÕs bailout of the insurer ever since the deal was struck in early September.

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