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On the recordJuly 16, 2012
Did it not occur to somebody to bring the financial institutions together and say, hey, you probably ought to consider a different way of establishing your floating rate resets because there is this integrity problem?
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Pat Toomey
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Toomey questions why regulators didn't address LIBOR's integrity issues sooner.

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