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On the recordNovember 2, 2011
We are, but it is a very different issue from the battles which we have been waging here to try to protect taxpayers and the Treasury from companies that are too big to fail.
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Carl Levin
Democratic · Michigan

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Levin discusses the need to protect taxpayers from failing companies.

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