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Barney Frank: “I would just say I also want to welcome this renewed faith that I have heard from my colleagues in the American…”

On the recordApril 18, 2007
I would just say I also want to welcome this renewed faith that I have heard from my colleagues in the American corporate system. Recently corporate America and financial America has been lamenting how badly we regulate compared to England. We have heard from the Paulson Committee, so-called after the Secretary of the Treasury, we have heard from the Chamber of Commerce, we have heard from the McKinsey report that we should be more like England. I am glad now to have this affirmation that even with Sarbanes-Oxley that the Chamber of Commerce praises so loudly, even with the Securities and Exchange Commission apparently not being the FSA, the American system still works. That is a good counter to some of what we have heard lately.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Discussing the effectiveness of American corporate regulation compared to England.

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