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On the recordMarch 10, 2014
I agree with New York's Banking Commissioner Ben Lawsky, who regulates some of the Nation's largest insurers, that applying bank capital standards to insurance is like trying to, as he said, 'fit a square peg in a round hole.'
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Pat Toomey
Republican · Pennsylvania

Editor's note · Context

Toomey supports Lawsky's view on the inapplicability of bank standards to insurance.

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