Richard Durbin actually said...

But $8 billion worth of buying power in the Federal Government is not enough to entice them to give the taxpayers a similar break?

So it appears that some card networks in other countries have been more successful than the United States of America.

Chairman Durbin, Ranking Member Collins, and Members of the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, thank you for invitin...

the complexity of categories, and the multiple fee levels within those categories, frequently serves to 'downgrade' transactions into higher...