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Jeanne Shaheen: “I don't know how much capital would be necessary to safeguard the American financial system.”

On the recordJuly 31, 2012
I don't know how much capital would be necessary to safeguard the American financial system.
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Jeanne Shaheen
Democratic · New Hampshire

Editor's note · Context

Shaheen questions the adequacy of capital to protect the financial system.

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