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Richard Blumenthal: “This financial State partnership was riven and destroyed by excessive resort to Federal preemption.”

On the recordJuly 13, 2009
This financial State partnership was riven and destroyed by excessive resort to Federal preemption.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Blumenthal explains how federal preemption harmed state enforcement in financial matters.

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