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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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