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On the recordMarch 17, 2009
I would presume, and correct me, that those procedures, those appropriate procedures you described, were not being deployed very successfully at Bear Stearns or Lehman Brothers.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Questioning the effectiveness of procedures at failed financial firms.

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