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On the recordOctober 13, 2009
If I have heard it once, I have heard it ten times, from not only the Secretary of the Treasury but the head of the Federal Reserve, that there are institutions in this country that are too big to fail.
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Jim Bunning
Republican · Kentucky

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Bunning emphasizes the issue of institutions being too big to fail.

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