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Jeb Hensarling: “You can put your boots in the oven, but it doesn't make them biscuits.”

On the recordJuly 17, 2013
You can put your boots in the oven, but it doesn't make them biscuits.
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Jeb Hensarling
Republican · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Hensarling criticizes those who overlook the failures of Fannie and Freddie.

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