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Gary Ackerman: “I think you struck something that strikes me as being a tremendous irony. The people who created the problem now are…”

On the recordFebruary 4, 2009
I think you struck something that strikes me as being a tremendous irony. The people who created the problem now are charged with fixing it. And that leaves us in kind of an interesting--and I think that the reason that I wanted to take a little bit of time with you, gentlemen, and knowing that you know this subject, the reason I want to take time on it is because sometimes people want to say, oh, we don't want to go witch-hunting or go looking at who we are going to blame. But on the other hand, if we don't understand how we got into the problem, we will end up doing the same dumb thing over again. And that is my concern.
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Gary Ackerman
New York

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Discussing accountability for the financial crisis during a House floor debate.

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