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Peter Welch: “One of the things that we have learned in this entire catastrophe of the financial meltdown is that most of the things…”

On the recordOctober 27, 2009
One of the things that we have learned in this entire catastrophe of the financial meltdown is that most of the things that were done that are truly outrageous and harmful to taxpayers and our economy were all legal.
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Peter Welch
Democratic · Vermont

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Welch discusses the legality and fairness of actions during the financial meltdown.

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