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On the recordJuly 28, 2010
There was significant reform of the mortgage industry with the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and there was also a provision--well, it wasn't in the Wall Street Reform Act, but there is a debate going on now here in Congress and in the Senate about what to do with this executive pay, with this 300-1 ratio. That is the question of: Do we continue the middle class tax cuts, and do we let the tax cuts expire that the Bush administration put in for the high and the mighty and the wealthy?
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California

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