we are talking about financial reform. There is a lot of attention and a lot of the Members of the Senate are trying to keep up with it and trying to make sure we create a reform package that effectively deals with corporations that have so mismanaged their business that they need to be dissolved or broken up or liquidated, as is normally the case when a company in America cannot pay its bills. This happens every day for smaller companies. It becomes a bit more complicated, sometimes a great deal more complicated, when the corporations get bigger and bigger and bigger. The way our corporations are normally dissolved, if they are financially insolvent and cannot operate, has always been bankruptcy court. There are bankruptcy judges all over America. It is a Federal court system. Bankruptcy is referred to in the U.S. Constitution. It has worked very well. I guess what I am concerned about is, some of the provisions that are in the proposed legislation that is floating about would alter that traditional idea in ways that may be unwise.
On the recordApril 22, 2010
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The speaker addresses concerns about proposed financial reform legislation affecting corporate bankruptcy.
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