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On the recordJune 4, 2013
I am not saying this legislation would have solved that, but I am saying that if more people had been at the table and more time and thought had been taken, we could have avoided what was a debacle.
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Spencer Bachus
Alabama

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Bachus suggests that better collaboration could have prevented the municipal finance crisis.

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