White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs issued a statement today in regard to President Obama’s proposal to impose a Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee on major financial firms that received assistance from the federal government. Read the full text of the statement after the jump. President Barack Obama will join his economic team today to propose a Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee to be imposed on the debt of the largest financial firms until the American people are fully compensated for the extraordinary assistance they provided to Wall Street.
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