After getting push-back from fact-checkers over their recent ad against Pat Toomey, Democrats are staying on the offensive this week, spotlighting a 1999 floor speech in which then-Congressman Toomey voiced support for credit default swaps, the risky derivatives that would later be blamed by many as contributing to the 2008 financial crisis.Democrats were circulating a video of the floor speech Monday, embedded at bottom, as they sought to bolster their argument that Toomey led the charge for Wall Street deregulation and is now trying to distance himself from that legacy.
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