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On the recordMarch 15, 2016
We don't want folks to go to the dark, so it would seem to me where your agency is a godsend to me is not to wipe out all of these businesses, but to try to make sure that we regulate them.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

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Meeks advocates for regulation of alternative financial services to protect consumers.

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