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Barney Frank: “I really appreciate his offering this amendment. As I said, I understand there will be some philosophical differences…”

On the recordMay 17, 2007
I really appreciate his offering this amendment. As I said, I understand there will be some philosophical differences over the existence of the fund, but it certainly is incumbent upon us to make sure that that's all we're debating, not whether it would be misused or abused. We tried to deal with that. You never anticipate everything, and the gentleman's amendment is a very good addition of the kind of safeguards we want so that we can be debating the real issue and not other things, and so I am grateful that you're offering it.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Discussing an amendment related to a fund and its safeguards.

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