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On the recordJanuary 7, 2009
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.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

Editor's note · Context

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

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