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On the recordJune 5, 2013
You can assure this committee and this Senate that in these large-scale regional trade agreements, whether it is the U.S.-EU agreement or whether it is the TPP, that we will not--you/we will not--undermine any of the financial regulators: FDIC, the Fed, Treasury, any of them?
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

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Senator Brown emphasizes the importance of maintaining financial regulations in trade agreements.

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