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On the recordJuly 28, 2009
I hope that if we do anything on corporate governance, I hope that it is modest and we realize that at the end of the day, a lot of factors led to the failures that we have had today.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Reed emphasizes the need for modest corporate governance reforms to avoid past failures.

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