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On the recordSeptember 12, 2012
A lot of this could have been prevented. I don't know where the regulators were on this, they certainly were asleep.
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Richard Shelby blames regulators for the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

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