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RiverLover

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5. "the SEC and CFTC each got sizable budget increases in a bill that left them with fewer regulations

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Dec 18, 2014, 10:06 PM

Dec 2014

to enforce"...

and the EPA budget was gutted.

Our priorities are so screwed up here.

And Liz will be in the minority in a few weeks. Much tougher to fight off the bank-sponsored rethugs' efforts to further dismantle Dodd-Frank.

She's said before if the peoples' voices are loud enough, that is what brings real change. We need to back her up when she's out there fighting for us next year!!

Get on the phone, send emails, write our local papers...

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