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Terri Sewell: Dodd-Frank was intended to add more transparency and oversight to the financial markets and to ensure that another…

On the recordDecember 12, 2012
Dodd-Frank was intended to add more transparency and oversight to the financial markets and to ensure that another financial crisis, a meltdown if you will, doesn't happen again.
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Terri Sewell
Democratic · Alabama

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Sewell emphasizes Dodd-Frank's goal of preventing future financial crises through transparency.

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