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Maxine Waters: “Those measures must both encourage the return of private capital to the market, while also ensuring that we do not…”

On the recordMarch 30, 2011
Those measures must both encourage the return of private capital to the market, while also ensuring that we do not disrupt our housing finance system.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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Waters discusses the need for balanced measures in housing finance reform.

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