Ron Klink: “I just think that when we are talking about something as volatile…”

On the recordMarch 8, 1995

I just think that when we are talking about something as volatile, something that is as dangerous and as complicated as derivatives that I think that the gentleman's amendment from Massachusetts certainly makes a great deal of sense, to say let us just take a step back in this one instance and have the adequate time to hold hearings so that we are not placing this extremely volatile portion where billions of dollars are being lost on the same train that is taking that 100-day ride. Let us take time.

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Ron Klink

Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Discussing the need for more time and hearings on legislation related to derivatives.

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