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Jeb Hensarling: “I maintained it was perhaps the single most powerful and unaccountable agency in the history of the republic.”

On the recordApril 10, 2018
I maintained it was perhaps the single most powerful and unaccountable agency in the history of the republic.
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Jeb Hensarling
Republican · Texas

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Hensarling criticizes the CFPB's power and lack of accountability.

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