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Debbie Dingell: “Let me advise my good friend that the protections of this bill have never been extended to investors. The protections of…”

On the recordMarch 8, 1995
Let me advise my good friend that the protections of this bill have never been extended to investors. The protections of this bill are extended to a bunch of high-priced lobbyists, to a group of people in the accounting profession, large numbers of whom are now in the gallery up above watching this proceeding, and to a group of slippery people in the investment industry who have been taking advantage of investors by marketing questionable derivatives, by engaging in an assortment of difficult, improper series of behaviors.
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Debbie Dingell
Democratic · Michigan

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Discussing the shortcomings of a bill regarding investor protections.

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