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Sherrod Brown: “This money might have been used to pay workers, to reduce fees for consumers, to protect taxpayers from bailouts.”

On the recordJuly 16, 2018
This money might have been used to pay workers, to reduce fees for consumers, to protect taxpayers from bailouts.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Brown criticizes the use of bank capital for buybacks instead of benefiting workers.

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