I have proposed and the administration has proposed recapitalizing banks in order to enable them to do more lending to small businesses to enable those firms, the small businesses, to recharge the economy.
On the recordJanuary 27, 2010
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Merkley discusses the need for bank recapitalization to support small business lending.
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