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On the recordFebruary 29, 2016
Did anybody bail them out? So now people are left with a long-term retirement instability, and yet we gave billions to those guys, and now they are making billions.
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Maria Cantwell
Democratic · Washington

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Cantwell questions the lack of support for ordinary citizens compared to banks.

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