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On the recordJuly 18, 2012
the wholesale rejection of regulation of the financial industry, I would have to say to my friends at the Chamber, going back to 2006, they remind me of the Bourbon, when the Restoration came in the 19th Century in France, and people said, they have forgotten nothing because they learned nothing.
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Mike Capuano
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Capuano criticizes the rejection of financial regulation, comparing it to historical ignorance.

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