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On the recordOctober 19, 2009
I look at the credit card industry as having been behind the bankruptcy reform and that its primary purpose was to keep people harassed longer before they could get into bankruptcy.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse criticizes the credit card industry's influence on bankruptcy reform.

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