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On the recordMarch 14, 2011
This idea that they are at the center of the crisis, as I say, I believe is ideologically driven as opposed to fact-based driven.
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Schumer emphasizes that the blame on Fannie and Freddie is not based on facts.

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