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On the recordDecember 4, 2011
To extend the analogy, community banks, for the most part are the healthy tissue in the body, and we want to ensure that the solution does not further endanger the healthy tissue and does work to root out the cancer so we're essentially hoping that the regulators and the government will be very prudent in what they do and enact regulations that will protect consumers without raising the costs and the risks to community banks to do business.
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William Bates
Massachusetts

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Bates emphasizes the importance of protecting community banks while regulating the financial industry.

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