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Austin Scott: “Thank you very much. Let's get this right now. Anybody with any just basic common sense of how our investment system…”

On the recordMay 17, 2007
Thank you very much. Let's get this right now. Anybody with any just basic common sense of how our investment system works in this country knows that if this amendment were effected here, if you were to put this amendment on any other enterprise, to dictate to that enterprise that your portfolio must exist at the lower yielding end of returns, you know good and well that that is not going to be helpful to that enterprise.
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Austin Scott
Republican · Georgia

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Discussing the implications of an amendment on investment portfolios.

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