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Barney Frank: “The gentleman is simply wrong. He made it very clear. I am quoting him almost verbatim when I say they said: We will…”

On the recordJune 27, 2007
The gentleman is simply wrong. He made it very clear. I am quoting him almost verbatim when I say they said: We will find out from scaling back in general how much it will save, and then we will be able to tell you how much the savings will be. No, I am not yielding any more because this is just not a debatable issue. The five commissioners didn't say simply ``we don't know.'' They said, ``We don't know as of now, but we will know better once we have had this experience.'' I want to go back and respond, the gentleman from Florida said the SEC is fiddling while capital markets burn. I don't think Chris Cox is fiddling.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts
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Editor's note · Context

Addressing criticisms of the SEC's actions during a discussion on capital markets.

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