On the recordApril 15, 2010
I come to the floor now, and I came to the floor yesterday, in response to the campaign by those both outside and, apparently, inside this Chamber who are literally trying to kill the Wall Street reform legislation, and to tie that reform to that bill to bailouts. I pointed out in those discussions yesterday that these arguments are straight out of Wall Street's playbook, written by political strategist Frank Luntz. As we all know, I submitted his political strategy that he offered months or weeks before even consideration of the bill, outlining politically how to defeat this legislation. So even before there was a bill, Mr. Luntz had a strategy on how to kill it. You merely have to look at the date of his memo to know what I am talking about. Yesterday we heard a strategy, basically written by him, to avoid any accountability for the mess they have made of our economy.
