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On the recordMarch 22, 2017
If President Trump wanted to make sure that the SEC would have a hard time in going after his Wall Street friends, it seems to me you would be the perfect SEC Chair.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren critiques the SEC Chair nominee's potential conflicts of interest.

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