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Elizabeth Warren: flexibility without responsibility, without responsibility for transparency, without requirements that one might have…

On the recordFebruary 4, 2009
flexibility without responsibility, without responsibility for transparency, without requirements that one might have assumed the Treasury would engage in.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Warren criticizes the lack of accountability in the Treasury's flexible approach.

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