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Dick Durbin: “The Durbin Amendment does not change the credit card companies' rules that allow them to push most of the fraud risk…”

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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