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On the recordMarch 9, 2009
Why should we continue to prop up banks that are basically insolvent, some of our large banks that are walking dead, so to speak, give them a transfusion, and there is no end in sight?
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

Editor's note · Context

Shelby questions the rationale behind bailing out insolvent banks.

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