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Richard Shelby: this might be important or something like this, but that straightening out the banking system, bringing trust, making…

On the recordFebruary 9, 2009
this might be important or something like this, but that straightening out the banking system, bringing trust, making loans to the communities, I mean the people in the communities, was 1,000 times more important than this stimulus package.
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Shelby emphasizes the importance of banking reform over the stimulus package.

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