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Matt Cartwright: “We held our noses because it cost so much money, so much federal taxpayer money indebted us so deeply to do that, but it…”

On the recordFebruary 25, 2013
We held our noses because it cost so much money, so much federal taxpayer money indebted us so deeply to do that, but it turned out to be a good gamble because we have recovered, as Ms. Geoghegan has said, 93 percent of this money.
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Matt Cartwright
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Cartwright discusses the financial recovery from the TARP program despite initial taxpayer costs.

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