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Janice Schakowsky: “I am very concerned here that this is an attack on a program that, let us face it, when you invest in various innovative…”

On the recordSeptember 13, 2011
I am very concerned here that this is an attack on a program that, let us face it, when you invest in various innovative and novel technologies that we need to do, it is not true, Mr. Silver, that there is some inherent risk associated with each of these deals, not with just Solyndra?
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Janice Schakowsky
Democratic · Illinois

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Schakowsky defends the loan guarantee program against political attacks.

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