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On the recordSeptember 14, 2006
You would disagree with me? That is a fair rate of lending and that that is not going to drive someone to financial ruin if they are paying that kind of an interest rate, particularly when they are working in a fairly modest salary scale in the first place?
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Mel Martinez
Republican · Florida

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Senator Martinez challenges the justification for high loan rates.

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