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On the recordJune 23, 2009
It is essential that this new agency have real power, that they have flexible rulemaking authority, that it be adequately funded, not subject to the starvation by Congress, and that it have real enforcement authority.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren emphasizes the need for strong regulatory powers for a new financial agency.

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