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On the recordMarch 24, 2009
Shouldn't the goal of our oversight of markets be to avoid or prevent the kind of manipulation that we saw over the last year, regardless of whether there was intent involved or not?
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Jeanne Shaheen
Democratic · New Hampshire

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Shaheen questions the goal of market oversight in preventing manipulation.

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