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Chellie Pingree: Thank you Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Peterson for calling this hearing to discuss what went wrong at MF Global and…

On the recordDecember 7, 2011
Thank you Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Peterson for calling this hearing to discuss what went wrong at MF Global and what we can do to avoid these types of failures in the derivatives markets in the future.
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Chellie Pingree
Democratic · Maine

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Pingree acknowledges the importance of the hearing on MF Global's failures.

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