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On the recordNovember 20, 2014
If we need the expertise that comes from having been in these sophisticated transactions in order to understand and regulate them, how do you pull people--would you be able to recruit the expertise needed if you had a 3-year restriction on returning to the private world?
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley questions how to recruit expertise under regulatory restrictions.

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