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On the recordSeptember 8, 2014
Let me commend you on that, because as you understood--as we understood--trying to sort out the lines and create different agencies, to do different things--what we tried to do is basically take the existing structure and make it cooperate and work more congruently, for want of a better term.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Reed praises efforts to improve cooperation among agencies overseeing derivatives.

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