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On the recordSeptember 16, 2009
My concern is that we don't, in the effort to be so protective and to avoid the tier-one, the tremendous institutions, that we strangle out the whole industry, the whole series of products that fall at that lower tier where a failure would be borne out by the company, not by the whole economy.
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Frank Lucas
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lucas expresses concern about overregulation harming smaller institutions.

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