Jeff Merkley actually said...

Enabling essentially taxpayer-subsidized hedge funds to operate with our deposits and put the entire banking system at great risk would be absolutely no service to Americans in urban or rural America.

Context

Merkley criticizes risky financial practices that endanger the banking system.

10/27/2015

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