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GMAC LLC, the auto and mortgage finance company, on Tuesday said it had been approved to use the commercial paper funding facility created earlier this month by the U.S. Federal Reserve with the aim of easing pressure on the corporate credit market.

Approval to use the Fed funding facility comes at a time when U.S. automakers and their affiliated finance companies are asking for a range of government assistance, including the purchase of bad auto loans through the $700 billion program asset-purchase program controlled by the U.S. Treasury.