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On the recordApril 20, 2009
I appreciate your comments, but don't we have to give just a little bit of slack to those guys in the fact that they had a real gun to their head at the time they were trying to structure this mammoth $700 billion we were talking about?
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Risch defends Treasury officials' decisions during the financial crisis.

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