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On the recordFebruary 11, 2009
the notion once again that we could ever start thinking about regulation, reform, and creating new architectures for the 21st century, very much a part of that has to be that that end user, that consumer user of products, be they credit cards, mortgages, car loans, student loans, they have got to be paramount in our minds.
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Chris Dodd
Democratic · Connecticut

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Dodd stresses the need for consumer protection in financial regulation reform.

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