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Maxine Waters: “My message is, drop the interest rates. Look at 36 percent or so.”

On the recordFebruary 10, 2016
My message is, drop the interest rates. Look at 36 percent or so.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Waters advocates for lowering interest rates on loans.

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