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Lawmakers Grill Geithner, Bernanke On AIG Rescue

by John Ydstie, NPR
March 25, 2009

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner went to Capitol Hill on Tuesday hoping to spend time with lawmakers discussing new regulatory tools to deal with failing companies as large and complex as AIG. Instead, they spent most of their time defending their roles in the rescue of the insurance giant.

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