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Mike Capuano: “We had bad news--the taxpayers overpaid, by $78 billion, for some of these instruments.”

On the recordFebruary 23, 2009
We had bad news--the taxpayers overpaid, by $78 billion, for some of these instruments.
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Mike Capuano
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Capuano discusses taxpayer losses due to financial instruments.

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