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Richard Blumenthal: “We need to make sure that the regulatory agencies are not victims of regulatory capture as happened, for example, in the…”

On the recordMarch 5, 2014
We need to make sure that the regulatory agencies are not victims of regulatory capture as happened, for example, in the financial industry in 2008.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal emphasizes the need to prevent regulatory capture in agencies.

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