Increase lending, Obama tells banks
Republicans call pressure hypocritical
Posted: December 15, 2009 at 5:49 a.m.
President Barack Obama speaks at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Monday.
President Barack Obama implored top bankers on Monday to help the fragile recovery by increasing their lending to small businesses and to support an overhaul of financial regulation. “We rise and fall together,” Obama declared.
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