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In October, Congress passed a bill to spend $700 taxpayers dollars to bail out financial institutions. A newly-formed Congressional oversight panel called TARP recently released its first report on how that money was being spent.

In October, Congress passed a bill to spend $700 taxpayers dollars to bail out financial institutions.

A newly-formed Congressional oversight panel called TARP recently released its first report on how that money was being spent.

In the video below, Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional oversight panel for the financial bailout and a professor at Harvard Law School talks about the $700 billion bailout plan with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.