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Lynn A. Westmoreland: “What Dodd-Frank did... is cast a net so broad that you caught all the little fishes that you were not intending to…”

On the recordApril 28, 2015
What Dodd-Frank did... is cast a net so broad that you caught all the little fishes that you were not intending to catch.

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Lynn Westmoreland criticizes Dodd-Frank for overregulating and affecting unintended targets.

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