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On the recordJune 6, 2016
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.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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

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