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Spencer Bachus: “I think what they are doing, I hear this, that they were too lax in the good times and you mentioned and now they want…”

On the recordJanuary 25, 2011
I think what they are doing, I hear this, that they were too lax in the good times and you mentioned and now they want to kind of make it up.
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Spencer Bachus
Alabama

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Bachus discusses the need for regulatory balance post-economic downturn.

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