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Tim Ryan: “The politically unpopular, but economically necessary TARP legislation, engineered by the Bush Administration, and the…”

On the recordFebruary 1, 2012
The politically unpopular, but economically necessary TARP legislation, engineered by the Bush Administration, and the Recovery Act, by the Obama Administration, averted, and I quote what you said earlier, 'an extraordinarily severe downturn, perhaps a Great Depression.'
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Tim Ryan
Democratic · Ohio

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Ryan defends TARP and the Recovery Act as crucial to preventing a depression.

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