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Richard Shelby: “We need to have--create conditions, that is, our regulators and so forth, where a corporation cannot be hijacked for…”

On the recordJuly 11, 2011
We need to have--create conditions, that is, our regulators and so forth, where a corporation cannot be hijacked for financial reasons by management or by special interests also hoping to advance a political agenda.
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Shelby warns against management and special interests hijacking corporations for non-financial agendas.

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