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On the recordJuly 21, 2009
I have got to ask the question, Why? Because their management, unlike their companies' founders, didn't rely on private enterprise and the time-tested American remedy for corporate failure, that being bankruptcy and reorganization.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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Cohen questions the management decisions of Chrysler and GM during their bankruptcies.

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