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Maxine Waters: “It saddens me that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have aligned themselves with Wall Street predatory…”

On the recordJune 17, 2014
It saddens me that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have aligned themselves with Wall Street predatory lenders and other bad actors in our financial system.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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Waters criticizes Republican colleagues for siding with predatory lenders.

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