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Maxine Waters: “In rolling back important reforms put in place in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to…”

On the recordDecember 3, 2019
In rolling back important reforms put in place in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to protect consumers, investors, and the economy, regulators are opening the door to the bad practices that contributed to the devastating financial crisis of 2008.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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Waters warns that deregulation risks repeating past financial crises.

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