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On the recordJune 15, 2010
The Durbin Amendment does not change the credit card companies' rules that allow them to push most of the fraud risk onto merchants.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin defends the amendment's impact on fraud risk for merchants.

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