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On the recordMarch 23, 2009
Mr. Chairman, thank you very much for allowing me to drop into this Committee of which I am not a member, and thank you also very much, Mr. Chairman, for cosponsorship of legislation that I have introduced which would put a cap on credit card interest rates at 15 percent unless there were some dire circumstances, at which point it could be raised.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Sanders thanks the Chairman for allowing him to discuss his credit card interest rate cap legislation.

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