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Pat McHenry: “Not surprisingly, this impressive and unprecedented power, designed to protect the largest and most interconnected…”

On the recordJuly 8, 2013
Not surprisingly, this impressive and unprecedented power, designed to protect the largest and most interconnected financial institutions, is also being criticized as being unconstitutional.
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Pat McHenry
Republican · North Carolina

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McHenry notes the constitutional criticisms of the powers granted by Dodd-Frank.

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