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On the recordFebruary 24, 2009
I think there was one part of it that was very, very wrong, and I regret deeply my own going along with it.
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Kent Conrad
Democratic · North Dakota

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Conrad expresses regret over supporting a part of the Modernization Act related to derivatives.

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