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On the recordJanuary 22, 2009
All I'm saying is why have a bunch of bureaucrats trying to oversee where the money is going? The problem with housing foreclosures is that the people are losing their jobs. So we can have all the remedies that we want for foreclosures, but unless people get back to work, they will fall behind again. What we are saying is restart the economy through priming the manufacturing process, get the people back to work, get the money coming in, then the other problems will be easier to solve. I agree there is a communication. We are agreed on a lot of things.
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Donald Manzullo
Illinois

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Discussing the need to address job loss to combat housing foreclosures.

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