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Pete Sessions: “There may be someone else here, but I have prosecuted banks before and big institutions and put some people in jail. But…”

On the recordMarch 22, 2013
There may be someone else here, but I have prosecuted banks before and big institutions and put some people in jail. But we have--this is serious. I don't think the deficit reserve fund is the way to go about it, frankly, but it is an issue worthy of discussion. It should be brought up in the authorizing committee--the Judiciary Committee--and considered. And I am very inclined to believe we have had too little prosecution in these cases. But I think the right thing to do is to take this by voice vote. People can decide how they want to vote on it. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Washington.
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Pete Sessions
Republican · Texas
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Mar 22, 2013

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