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On the recordJune 30, 2010
I have to smile when I listen to my friends talk about job killing, when letting Wall Street run wild, gambling like it was just a big casino, results in 780,000 jobs a month being lost to the point that during this recession we have lost 8 million jobs. And we've got to put people back to work. We need certainty, we need reasonable regulation. That's the purpose of this bill.
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Ed Perlmutter
Democratic · Colorado
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Jun 30, 2010

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Speaker Perlmutter addresses job loss and the need for regulation in the context of the economic recession.

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