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On the recordFebruary 25, 2009
I think that your team and the Treasury team and Larry Summers' team are to be saluted for really wrestling with a lot of nitty-gritty details and trying to lay out a road map of how to make modifications work.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

Editor's note · Context

Merkley praises the efforts of the Treasury team in loan modification planning.

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