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Richard Shelby: “Why should we continue to prop up banks that are basically insolvent, some of our large banks that are walking dead, so…”

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

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Shelby questions the rationale behind bailing out insolvent banks.

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