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On the recordJuly 11, 2016
For several months now, I have been calling for us to rethink, and I do think we need to rethink, on how banking in the Community Reinvestment Act, CRA, should be regulated because much has changed over the last 40 years since this law was initially enacted.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

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Meeks emphasizes the need to update regulations for the Community Reinvestment Act.

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