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From the page: "It is important to recognize that imposing pay restrictions as a condition of receiving TARP money and other special assistance is not interference with the market. Giving these banks money is interference with the market. The marketâ€s assessment at this moment of crisis was that these firms were bankrupt, which would have left most of their executives unemployed. The government chose to over-ride the market by giving the banks the money they needed to survive. The government could have imposed whatever conditions it chose for receiving this money."

From the page: Members of Congress submit statements for publication in the Congressional Record all the time, often with a decorous request to "revise and extend my remarks." It is unusual for so many revisions and extensions to match up word for word. It is even more unusual to find clear evidence that the statements originated with lobbyists.

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