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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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William Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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

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