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On the recordJanuary 21, 2009
Five years, 10 years from now, we are not going to be right back where we are--the argument that when you made the loan, you knew who you were lending and what the rules where and, if we went down the road a little bit, we would be changing the rules retroactively?
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Bobby Scott
Democratic · Virginia

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Scott questions the logic of only applying changes to past loans.

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