Jeff Merkley actually said...

One of the things that is very frustrating to me is I think many of the circumstances we are in right now could be avoided had we had reasonable rules of the road at both the retail mortgage market and in terms of Wall Street supervision.

Context

Merkley expresses frustration over avoidable circumstances due to lack of regulations.

01/07/2009

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