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Lamar Alexander: “If the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would actually do that, it would double my--it would increase my…”

On the recordJanuary 30, 2013
If the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would actually do that, it would double my--it would increase my appreciation of the agency.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Senator Alexander expresses frustration with the CFPB's effectiveness.

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