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Barack Obama: It creates a bipartisan Financial Markets Commission to investigate the financial practices that brought us to this…

On the recordMay 19, 2009
It creates a bipartisan Financial Markets Commission to investigate the financial practices that brought us to this point.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks on Signing the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 and Legislation To Prevent Mortgage Foreclosures and...

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