Initial financing, the company noted, will be fully provided by a consortium of six banks including JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America.

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And that's why I'm proposing a Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee to be imposed on major financial firms until the American people are fully compensated for the extraordinary assistance they provided to Wall Street.

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