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Pat Toomey: “I do believe that this political mandate to expand mortgage lending to people, including some who were not able to pay…”

On the recordSeptember 11, 2013
I do believe that this political mandate to expand mortgage lending to people, including some who were not able to pay back those mortgages, was absolutely at the heart of the financial crisis that we just went through.
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Pat Toomey
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Toomey links government lending policies to the financial crisis.

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