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Emanuel Cleaver: When you use the term 'bailout,' I think that--and I know the media connected with that and ran with it, and so you…

On the recordFebruary 9, 2009
When you use the term 'bailout,' I think that--and I know the media connected with that and ran with it, and so you automatically are going to have a large number of people against a bailout no matter what it is.
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Emanuel Cleaver
Democratic · Missouri

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Cleaver criticizes the term 'bailout' for causing public opposition.

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