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Barney Frank: “Well, I don't understand why we would say that. There might be students who have the money to buy it. And this fiction…”

On the recordMay 17, 2007
Well, I don't understand why we would say that. There might be students who have the money to buy it. And this fiction that students who buy a home, parents who buy a home for their own child to live in are foreign investors seems to me to import a fiction to get around an excessively rigid bill. And there may be other categories of people who are lawfully in this country who don't have Social Security numbers and could have the money to buy a home, and I am unpersuaded that we should prohibit that.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of a bill on home purchases by students and others without Social Security numbers.

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