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On the recordJuly 15, 2014
The regulators themselves, as we know, are not omniscient. They are not going to be perfect. They are not going to always get it right, and in the end, eventually institutions will fail anyway.
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Pat Toomey
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Toomey points out the fallibility of regulators and inevitability of institutional failures.

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