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Spencer Bachus: “What we need instead is a strategy to get us out of what we have witnessed in the past 6 months, and that is government…”

On the recordJune 10, 2009
What we need instead is a strategy to get us out of what we have witnessed in the past 6 months, and that is government command and control of businesses.
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Spencer Bachus
Alabama

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Bachus argues against government control over corporate compensation and governance.

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