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Richard Shelby: “The Commission's statutory mission was, and I will quote, 'to examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current…”

On the recordMay 9, 2011
The Commission's statutory mission was, and I will quote, 'to examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States.'
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Shelby outlines the purpose of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.

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