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David M. Smith, the Democratic candidate for Congress in Virginia’s Seventh Congressional District, called today for the immediate impanelment of an independent, nonpartisan commission to investigate the role of Congress, federal regulators, and thrift executives in the savings and loan scandal.
According to the Winchester businessman, the savings and loan scandal “is just one example of why change is so desperately needed in Washington.”
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