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Reform bill called for speculators, republicans want to cut the funding for the agency that would be in charge and give the oversight. and last night, ohio senator sherrod brown, along with 47 other democratic senators, wrote to republican congressional leaders, mitch mcconnell and speaker boehner, calling on them to abandon those financial cuts to the cftc. and senator brown is here tonight with us. and i appreciate it. senator, good to have you with us. >> good to be back. thank you. >> there is going to be a change of the guard as far as personnel is concerned on the cftc. mr. dunn's going ...

And if gas prices go where they could go, unchecked, and speculators running rampant in the market, if we see $4 a gallon gas and go through what we went through in 2008, this recovery could be tanked. isn't this a critical juncture right now for the democrats to make sure this gets done? >> yeah, it's a critical juncture for the country especially importantly. i was at the gas station talking to people in norwood, maybe two weeks ago, a couple sundays ago in cincinnati. there's real fear among small business people, among people looking for work, people who are working, that $4, $4.25 gallon ...

The republican strategy to help wall street and big oil has been to really defy the small businesses that are out there begging for curbs on speculators. even though the dodd-frank reform bill called for speculators, republicans want to cut the funding for the agency that would be in charge and give the oversight. and last night, ohio senator erd brown, ang with 47 other democratic senators, wrote to republican congressional leaders, mitch mcconnell and speaker boehner, calling on them to abandon those financial cuts to the cftc. and senator brown is here tonight with us. and i appreciate it. ...