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Tom Cotton: “It would seem that that could be done on a more discriminating basis than an arbitrary threshold, wouldn't it?”

On the recordJune 14, 2017
It would seem that that could be done on a more discriminating basis than an arbitrary threshold, wouldn't it?
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Tom Cotton
Republican · Arkansas

Editor's note · Context

Cotton critiques the use of arbitrary financial thresholds in regulation.

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