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Dick Durbin: “Credit cards are important, I have a wallet full of them, too. But I think they have gone way too far.”

On the recordMarch 23, 2009
Credit cards are important, I have a wallet full of them, too. But I think they have gone way too far.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Durbin expresses concern over the excessive practices of credit card companies.

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