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Jack Reed: “I think this was a conscious decision of the Bush administration, of Secretary Preston, without the mission to FHA and…”

On the recordJanuary 12, 2009
I think this was a conscious decision of the Bush administration, of Secretary Preston, without the mission to FHA and then Fannie and Freddie to go out there, the mortgage market in the United States would be moribund and we would be in a more precarious position at the moment?
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Reed discusses the impact of the Bush administration's decisions on the mortgage market.

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