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On the recordJuly 27, 2009
But aren't a lot of the problems that we have encountered that insurance, and, of course, banks, too, are involved in things without adequate capital to back up what they are involved in, the risk that they take?
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Shelby questions the capital adequacy of banks and insurance companies.

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