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On the recordJanuary 23, 2012
It baffles me, it truly does, that we have now had over 118 hearings, 342 witnesses in this committee and when we ask for one of the bankers to come tell us why they were robo-signing, violating the law, we cannot get them.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

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Cummings expresses frustration over the lack of accountability from bankers in hearings.

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