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On the recordFebruary 23, 2015
Don't news reports suggest that there is no harm but perhaps reason for you to ask the Justice Department for some of this, any of this information that they might think important to this country's financial system and to these banks and to you?
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

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Brown questions Yellen about the need for information from the Justice Department.

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