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Dick Durbin: “I put in a bill to put the usury rates at 36 percent because I thought that was so high that we would be just fine.”

On the recordJune 8, 2009
I put in a bill to put the usury rates at 36 percent because I thought that was so high that we would be just fine.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Durbin advocates for capping interest rates to prevent exploitation.

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