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Pat Toomey: Instead of conducting oversight hearings to push for implementation of the Wall Street Reform Act, we all remember when…

On the recordFebruary 10, 2016
Instead of conducting oversight hearings to push for implementation of the Wall Street Reform Act, we all remember when President Obama signed Dodd-Frank that chief financial services lobbyists in this town said, 'Now it is half-time,' meaning they were going to go to work to try to stop the Fed and weaken the FDIC rules and do whatever they could do on behalf of Wall Street.
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Pat Toomey
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Toomey criticizes the lack of oversight on Wall Street reforms post-Dodd-Frank.

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