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On the recordApril 28, 2010
They're going to bankers, those loans are all set up, and when this thing passes, they go, Forget it, we're not going to expand business that way. And so you literally have people you know in the banking business in the State where the President is visiting today, and they're saying, These people came to us and said we don't want your money because we can't make enough profit on it to pay you back because we passed this piece--you keep coming to the same conclusion that--and I don't mean to beat on this a little bit--the solution to this is repeal. We've got to get rid of this thing. I am also joined by another good friend of ours, another doctor who has been a stalwart on this from Georgia, my good friend, Congressman Gingrey. We've just been talking about this tremendous gap between statements that the President is making, and now the gap between what the President is saying and what this Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, the center that's collecting the numbers, is saying totally different than what the President is saying.
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri

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The speaker discusses the impact of legislation on banking and business expansion, advocating for repeal.

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