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Richard Shelby: “It would take a long stretch, wouldn't it, to bring a lot of confidence back into what we feel has been lost with the…”

On the recordAugust 4, 2009
It would take a long stretch, wouldn't it, to bring a lot of confidence back into what we feel has been lost with the rating agencies, would it not?
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Senator Shelby questions the difficulty of restoring confidence in rating agencies.

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