Concerns Rep. Cox Is Too Business Friendly To Be SEC's Top Cop...

Concerns Rep. Cox Is Too Business Friendly To Be SEC's Top Cop...

To Christopher Cox, it seemed like a classic taxpayer boondoggle: a federally supported helium stockpile, created for World War I blimps, that somehow had survived into the 1990s.

So the conservative House Republican from Newport Beach turned to a liberal Democratic colleague, Barney Frank of Massachusetts, and suggested legislation to sell the cache to private enterprise. Frank agreed.

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