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On the recordSeptember 10, 2013
But what we had with TARP was this perversion of the process where each and every person sitting around the table suddenly became the Treasury Department.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

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Cummings describes how TARP altered the traditional bankruptcy process.

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