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On the recordNovember 2, 2011
You have got discretion to determine that; isn't that just your ordinary function?
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Carl Levin
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Levin discusses the regulatory discretion in preventing excessive speculation under the Dodd-Frank Act.

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