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Jeb Hensarling: “I am not sure I want my government steering people into a product that may not be right for them.”

On the recordJuly 17, 2013
I am not sure I want my government steering people into a product that may not be right for them.
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Jeb Hensarling
Republican · Texas

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Hensarling questions government involvement in promoting certain mortgage products.

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