Excuse me. If I might interrupt, are you telling me that the Wall Street banks, the financial industry, is spending $1.4 million a day lobbying Congress and the Senate to stop financial reform and the reregulation of Wall Street?
John Garamendi: “Excuse me. If I might interrupt, are you telling me that the Wall Street banks, the financial industry, is spending $1.4…”
Editor's note · Context
Garamendi is questioning the financial industry's lobbying efforts against reform.
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