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Elizabeth Warren: “It was a hard fight to get this agency passed into law, but I thought, once it had passed and it had become the law…”

On the recordJuly 13, 2011
It was a hard fight to get this agency passed into law, but I thought, once it had passed and it had become the law, that this kind of fighting would be over
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren reflects on the challenges faced after establishing the consumer protection agency.

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