Despite repeated warnings by me and other Members of this Committee about the risk that GSEs presented, they were allowed to accumulate more than $5 trillion in financial obligations with only minimal amounts of capital.
Richard Shelby: “Despite repeated warnings by me and other Members of this Committee about the risk that GSEs presented, they were…”
On the recordOctober 7, 2009
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Shelby criticizes the accumulation of debt by GSEs without adequate capital.
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