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Carolyn Maloney: “It's regrettable that a -- a dangerous and totally unrelated provision was added to a very important consumer protection…”

On the recordMay 19, 2009
It's regrettable that a -- a dangerous and totally unrelated provision was added to a very important consumer protection bill. And you should not pass a consumer bill in -- in the barrel of a gun. It is really wrong, but that's the way the system was.
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Carolyn Maloney
Democratic · New York

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Carolyn Maloney expresses regret over the addition of a gun provision to the credit card reform bill, emphasizing that it undermines consumer protection.

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