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Kelvin Mace

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1. Just so you know who will oppose this:
Thu Aug 13, 2015, 01:16 PM
Aug 2015
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/250838-bill-clinton-defends-repeal-of-glass-steagall

"Politicians — particularly now, in the aftermath of this crash — fear that anything they do will be held against them later if anything bad happens," Clinton told Inc. in an interview. "Look at all the grief I got for signing the bill that ended Glass-Steagall. There's not a single, solitary example that it had anything to do with the financial crash.”

And before anyone points out that Bill won't be president:

"I think this is a much more complicated issue than to just point at any one piece of legislation and say, if we just pass that, everything would be fine," she said when asked about Glass-Steagall. "It's a more complicated assessment that just any one piece of legislation might suggest."

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