Pete Sessions: “I would say a couple of weeks ago the Wall Street Journal, after all…”

On the recordNovember 2, 2011

I would say a couple of weeks ago the Wall Street Journal, after all of this happened, wrote that ``including this CLASS Act was a special act of fiscal corruption.'' If a private business said: Invest in our company; I have a plan that is going to be sound and it is going to make money in the future, trust me, invest your money with me, vote for me, yet they knew and had evidence in their files and their own employees were saying it was not sound, it was actually going to cost money, I wonder what would happen to them.

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Pete Sessions

Republican · Texas

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Nov 2, 2011

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