I was one of the authors with several colleagues on Dodd-Frank calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission to set up a mechanism whereby we could trace the conflict minerals and to encourage American companies to do the same to reduce the likelihood that the mining of these minerals would, in fact, finance the killing and rape that is going on in DRC.
Durbin discusses his role in Dodd-Frank to trace conflict minerals.
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