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Dick Lugar: It is often little understood or little noted, unless there is a crisis in the markets.

On the recordFebruary 24, 2009
It is often little understood or little noted, unless there is a crisis in the markets.
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Dick Lugar
Republican · Indiana

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Lugar comments on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's visibility and importance.

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