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Published 3/17/2009 at Reuters: Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's nominee to oversee U.S. futures markets, who has confessed he should have done more to rein in exotic financial instruments that have battered global markets, was approved by the Senate Agriculture Committee on Monday.
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