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Joe Barton: “Nowhere in the law, nowhere in the definitions does it say that that program is to subsidize the loss of principle.”

On the recordNovember 16, 2011
Nowhere in the law, nowhere in the definitions does it say that that program is to subsidize the loss of principle.
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

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Barton argues that the program is not meant to cover principal losses.

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