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Don Beyer: “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…”

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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