it's a bipartisa commission, has a budget of $ million, has subpoena powers. everything the 9/11 commission had. and has an unpry tkeld charge -- unbridled charge to investite every aspect of the financial markets, whether it's the rating agencies, the investment bankers, the regular bankers and traditional bankers, the g.s.e.'s like freddie mac and fannieae, every compnent and report back to us next year after the midterm election on what it finds caused the economic collapse that began last september and continued to mushroom until late march of this year. there are some that are talking of a rush to judgment in terms of financial regulation, but i hope we'll take a pause, give this commission time to act,et us find o wt a forensic audit tells us of what happened in america and our financial markets, and let's respond to that after we have allhe facts. i think a rush to regulatory judgment under what one might think for the best of intentis caused the problem cost unintended consequence of having a more difficult impact on the economy than it should. i think

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