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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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