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Michael Bennet: “And it is a boondoggle of a mess, and I think there is some--and the thing that I cannot understand is where the…”

On the recordNovember 15, 2010
And it is a boondoggle of a mess, and I think there is some--and the thing that I cannot understand is where the misalignment of interest is here, because we have millions of people in this country that are underwater in their mortgages.
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Michael Bennet
Democratic · Colorado

Editor's note · Context

Bennet describes the mortgage crisis as a mess and questions the misalignment of interests.

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