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On the recordOctober 7, 2009
But as we have seen during this crisis, many of those, if not most of those, AAA-rated securities have, in fact, been downgraded.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Reed highlights the downgrade of AAA-rated securities during the financial crisis.

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