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On the recordFebruary 10, 2009
Let me just say to our captains of the universe who are sitting here before us that it seems that, all of my political life, I have been in disagreement with the banking and mostly financial services community because of practices that I have believed to be not in the best interest always of the very people that they claim to serve.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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Waters expresses her long-standing disagreement with the banking sector's practices.

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