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Dale Bumpers: “Is it not true that the company has countersued the Federal Government saying, ``You should have stopped us long ago''?…”

On the recordSeptember 18, 1997
Is it not true that the company has countersued the Federal Government saying, ``You should have stopped us long ago''? Isn't that what the countersuit says--``You should have regulated us more closely''?
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Dale Bumpers
Arkansas

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Questioning a company's countersuit against the Federal Government regarding regulation.

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