Richard Lugar actually said...

We need a careful triage of financial entities to determine which ones can stand on their own, which could become healthy with a reasonable infusion of additional capital, and which are insolvent beyond repair.

Context

Lugar calls for assessing banks' viability before using taxpayer funds.

03/24/2009

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