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Tim Scott: “Dodd-Frank makes it worse for people living in poverty and people living on the threshold of poverty.”

On the recordApril 4, 2016
Dodd-Frank makes it worse for people living in poverty and people living on the threshold of poverty.
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Tim Scott
Republican · South Carolina

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Senator Scott discusses the negative impact of Dodd-Frank on the poor.

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