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On the recordApril 18, 2012
it only took 20 million manhours to build the Panama Canal, and so one of the things that somebody said was that instead of joining two bodies of water, what Dodd-Frank is doing is joining lawyers with billable hours.
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Randy Neugebauer
Republican · Texas

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Neugebauer compared Dodd-Frank's compliance burden to the labor of building the Panama Canal.

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