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On the recordJanuary 27, 2010
They were pretty angry that their tax dollars were being used to cover the consequences of years of recklessness on Wall Street and failures of a regulatory system.
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Patty Murray
Democratic · Washington

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Murray expresses constituents' anger over taxpayer money used to address Wall Street's failures.

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