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Carolyn Maloney: the Credit Card Bill of Rights, which I authored and worked on for 4 years and which passed this body with strong…

On the recordSeptember 21, 2011
the Credit Card Bill of Rights, which I authored and worked on for 4 years and which passed this body with strong bipartisan support, the Pew Foundation found that bill alone saved consumers over $10 billion last year by stopping unfair abusive practices, such as raising rates retroactively on balances for no reason at all.
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Carolyn Maloney
Democratic · New York

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Maloney discusses the impact of the Credit Card Bill of Rights on consumer savings.

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