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Maxine Waters: “I wonder if you denounce the Financial Services Roundtable's actions to get the CFPB.”

On the recordSeptember 28, 2016
I wonder if you denounce the Financial Services Roundtable's actions to get the CFPB.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Waters questions the CEO's stance on the Financial Services Roundtable's opposition to the CFPB.

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