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Barney Frank: We should not be--we have a Federal statutory authority here that we have given to the SEC, and when we talk about how…

On the recordJune 5, 2012
We should not be--we have a Federal statutory authority here that we have given to the SEC, and when we talk about how to share that, we should not share the States' role and subject the States to this role without their full participation.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Frank argues for the importance of state participation in regulatory discussions.

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