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Yvette Clarke: While the CFPB's primary responsibility is to regulate financial products, it is clear that small financial institutions…

On the recordDecember 2, 2013
While the CFPB's primary responsibility is to regulate financial products, it is clear that small financial institutions were not the cause--and I repeat, were not the cause--of the recent financial calamity.
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Yvette Clarke
Democratic · New York

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Clarke argues that small financial institutions should not be blamed for the financial crisis.

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