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On the recordJuly 17, 2012
Let me just segue into something that perhaps you had not anticipated. Out in California, we have a number of cities that are filing bankruptcy, and a lot of this has to do with the housing crisis and the problems that they have.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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Waters discusses California cities facing bankruptcy due to the housing crisis.

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