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Spencer Bachus: “I doubt that one rule--it may bring down all of the community banks, it may bring down all of the insurance companies.”

On the recordDecember 4, 2011
I doubt that one rule--it may bring down all of the community banks, it may bring down all of the insurance companies.
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Spencer Bachus
Alabama

Editor's note · Context

Bachus expresses skepticism about the impact of a single regulatory rule on the economy.

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