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On the recordJune 12, 2012
If it is too risky for your company, what stops it from being in the future too risky where you lose not $2 to $4 billion but $50 billion, create a size that ultimately creates a risk on the bank that takes that bank into the possibility of a run, and then ultimately becomes the collective responsibility of each and every American?
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey

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Menendez warns about the risks of banking practices affecting taxpayers.

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