From the PubDef archive — published September 23, 2008, restored 2026. Links and embedded media may point to archived copies.
Clay “leaning against” supporting $700B Bailout
Filed Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Count Congressman Lacy Clay among those that are having a tough time swallowing the idea of handing over $700,000,000,000 in taxpayer dollars to the already wealthiest people in America in the hopes of fixing a crisis that they created.
From Monday’s CQPolitics.com:
“I’m leaning hard against it,” said William Lacy Clay, D-Mo. “All the calls to my office seem to be opposed. People don’t think we should be bailing out Wall Street. They think we should help families that are being foreclosed.”
Read the full article here.
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