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Jim Bunning: I do not understand how one company is worth propping up with $180 billion worth of taxpayers' money.

On the recordJanuary 7, 2009
I do not understand how one company is worth propping up with $180 billion worth of taxpayers' money.
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Jim Bunning

Editor's note · Context

Bunning questions the rationale behind the AIG bailout.

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