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Tom Harkin: “But it just seems to me that if you are going to close the loophole, you have got to put them all on a regulated change.”

On the recordFebruary 24, 2009
But it just seems to me that if you are going to close the loophole, you have got to put them all on a regulated change.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin insists that all derivatives should be traded on regulated exchanges to eliminate loopholes.

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