While we have made much progress, the long-term effects of the financial crisis, the worst since the Great Depression, can still be felt by working people and people still looking for work in every one of our communities across the country.
Waters highlights ongoing unemployment issues stemming from the financial crisis.
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I am also pleased that this coming Saturday, Director Chopra will join me in my district in Los Angeles for a town hall meeting with my constituents to discuss consumer protections and access to banking products and services.
But, if anything, this rule should increase competition by ensuring that the largest companies are not able to leverage their size and data to unfairly crowd out smaller companies.
I do believe that based on what we understand about the profit margins of the banks, they could really afford to do it.
This is not for any one ethnic group. This is for everybody. Because we have a crisis in this country.
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