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Dick Durbin: “There's a dramatic difference in the personnel numbers at…”

Featuring: Dick Durbin, Democratic | U.S. Senate Illinois

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Published | Video Starts at 01:09

I believe it's 556 or so at the CFTC, and the SEC is around 4,000. They've just lost about 18% of their workforce, including mostly their senior people. So There's a dramatic difference in the personnel numbers at each of these two agencies [CFTC and SEC]. but there's also a dramatic difference in how they raise the funds to sustain their agency. Would you like to say what that is? Absolutely. (01:09–01:14)

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Asserts a significant disparity in staffing levels between the CFTC and SEC.

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