His position required Maehara to confront the vested local government and public works interest groups for on-going or planned pork-barrel public works projects, including some notoriously wasteful and unnecessary dams.

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For the SEC, going after the penny stocks trading on the Over-The Counter market is like shooting fish in a barrel.

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