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Frank Lautenberg: Letting Wall Street regulate itself helped trigger this crisis, sending millions of Americans to the unemployment line…

On the recordApril 4, 2011
Letting Wall Street regulate itself helped trigger this crisis, sending millions of Americans to the unemployment line and causing their retirement accounts to shrink.
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Frank Lautenberg
Democratic · New Jersey

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Criticism of self-regulation on Wall Street leading to economic crisis.

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