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Mike Coffman: “I think that the problem--one of the problems I see is that the members of Congress who had their fingerprints all over…”

On the recordApril 8, 2015
I think that the problem--one of the problems I see is that the members of Congress who had their fingerprints all over putting individuals into homes that they couldn't afford--those loans, securitized and misrated dramatically, were the catalyst for the collapse in 2008.
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Mike Coffman
Republican · Colorado

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Coffman blames Congress members for contributing to the 2008 financial crisis.

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