Political Quotes

“Far more important is what we learned in our hearing and how good the national credit reporting system is to our Nation. I am not sure that anybody disagrees with that, that anybody thinks that it ought to be experimented with, that it ought to expire in 9 years. It is very good for consumers. It has been particularly good in democratizing credit and extending credit to middle- and low-income Americans; and to limit that to 9 years, we do not do that with the Community Reinvestment Act. We do not do that to the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. We do not do that to our other acts which protect consumers, and this act is for the benefit of consumers and it protects consumers.”