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• n  any of various controls or devices for regulating or controlling fluid flow, pressure, temperature, etc.
• n  an official responsible for control and supervision of a particular activity or area of public interest
• n  a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)

• Regulators should take steps to ensure that credit rating agencies meet the highest standards of the international organization of securities regulators and that they avoid .
• Outside of the White House itself, the most vocal opponent of the federal regulatory agencies is, of all people, one of Washington's most active regulators.
• To trace the causes of the current meltdown, you have to go back to a series of regulatory missteps.

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News & Articles

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• Iowa regulator pleased with ruling on disclosure
  Iowa's top campaign regulator says she's pleased an appeals court upheld much of an Iowa law requiring outside groups to disclose their spending on political campaigns. Megan Tooker, director of the Iowa ...
  June 14, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Securities regulator alleges fraud and making false statements to an investigator
  Securities regulator alleges fraud and making false statements to an investigator
  June 14, 2013 - CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance
• Regulator Pleased with Ruling on Disclosure
  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Iowa's top campaign regulator says she's pleased an appeals court upheld much of an Iowa law requiring outside groups to disclose their spending on political campaigns.
  June 14, 2013 - KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids

Quotes

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• John McCain in Politico
  The primary regulator of Wall Street, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), kept in place trading rules that let speculators and hedge funds turn our markets into a casino,McCain says in prepared remarks. "They allowed naked short...
• Scott Garrett in International Herald Tribune
  Forgive me if I am a skeptic ...... when I hear that if we only have a systemic regulator it will never happen again,Rep. Scott Garrett, a New Jersey Republican, told Geithner.
• Charles Schumer in USA Today
  The regulator here was asleep at the switch,Schumer said. "The administration is doing what they always do, blaming the fire on the person who called 9-1-1."