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Elijah Cummings: “The Department's entire loan guarantee program as a 'broad scandal' that 'has been driven by political favoritism…”

On the recordMarch 19, 2012
The Department's entire loan guarantee program as a 'broad scandal' that 'has been driven by political favoritism, accusations of pay-to-play relationships.'
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

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Elijah Cummings criticized the loan guarantee program as corrupt and politically biased.

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