Jeff Merkley actually said...

I wanted to turn to the orderly liquidation authority and the effort to eliminate that. That was a bipartisan effort to say if a bank is in trouble, the shareholders should be at risk, the bond holders should be at risk, not the taxpayers.

Context

Merkley defends the orderly liquidation authority to protect taxpayers from bank failures.

06/06/2016

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