03/12/2000
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"The funds will protect depositors in failed federally insured savings and loans."
"It is essential to the stability of our financial system that the Government fulfill its promise to the millions of depositors."
"I think we should be very careful that if we make an assertion, that we know that it has some factual basis."
"We intend to present it to the Congress, and I think it will have broad bipartisan support."