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Richard Shelby: The bottom line here is much of this could have been prevented without a single additional piece of legislation being…

On the recordMarch 9, 2009
The bottom line here is much of this could have been prevented without a single additional piece of legislation being done if people had just done their jobs back here.
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Shelby emphasizes that failures could have been avoided with proper enforcement of existing laws.

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