I will say, as we improve this bill and its specific impact on the financial services industry, I regret even more our collective unwillingness to do more than we are doing and to do, in fact, what we could easily do to help those who are being left behind. It is an inappropriate continuation of a pattern of helping the wealthy and the powerful, and we all benefit to some extent from that, but ignoring the other end of the society.
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