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On the recordMay 17, 2023
you do not get to write a law that shoves the Fed in a strictly deregulatory direction and then turn around and say, 'Gee, we wish they had not deregulated.'
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Warren highlights the contradiction in lawmakers' expectations after passing deregulatory legislation.

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