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On the recordJune 16, 2015
It seems to me that one of the issues here is that we are trying to compare the Federal Government's credit to that of a major financial institution, a bank, a profit-making institution.
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Don Beyer
Democratic · Virginia

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Beyer discusses the difference between federal loans and bank loans.

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