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Barney Frank: “I think the amount of time we are talking about is not too long, given the importance of this and of doing it right.”

On the recordDecember 12, 2012
I think the amount of time we are talking about is not too long, given the importance of this and of doing it right.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Frank defends the timeline for the Volcker Rule implementation.

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