Associated Press writers Jim Abrams, Andrew Miga and Kenneth Thomas contributed to this report.

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ECONOMIST: Sources and acknowledgments

Meanwhile, ranking member Michael Capuano (D-Mass.), raised the memory of Enron, telling the trio of remaining panelists they reminded him of Kenneth Lay, Jeffrey Skilling and Andrew Fastow in that a billion dollars went missing and nobody knew how.

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