Elijah Cummings actually said...

When I think about banks and the way that, if you -- if you bounce a check, they're going to charge you $35 or $50 for a bounced check. And they're going to demand strict accountability. But, when they get billions, they don't want to be accountable. There's something wrong with that picture.

12/21/2008

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