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Sheldon Whitehouse: “It applies to every single type of debt, including debts that the banks hold, except for one kind, and that is the poor…”

On the recordJanuary 27, 2010
It applies to every single type of debt, including debts that the banks hold, except for one kind, and that is the poor residential mortgage holder.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Whitehouse points out the exclusion of residential mortgage holders from bankruptcy protections.

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