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Mark Warner: “We, the American taxpayer, have taken a high-flying company that was doing what most of us would believe in a normal…”

On the recordMarch 4, 2009
We, the American taxpayer, have taken a high-flying company that was doing what most of us would believe in a normal market circumstance was high risk.
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Mark Warner
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Warner highlights the risks taken by taxpayers in bailing out a high-risk company.

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