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Forthright about recognizing that. he has stated repeatedly most recently of course just a couple weeks ago in the kabul conference publicly and openly about the various activities that need to take place to combat the kinds of corruption and other activities some predatory practices if you will of local governance and so forth so that indeed you have to get rid of this to achieve legitimacy in the eyes of the people of the afghan government. hes aware of that. if you look at the number of indiv...

Backlash against that. i understand the idea if people who are, you know, if they overcharge or if they write a check, they cant afford, there should be some fee there. for those of us who do things the right way for the banks that charge us, does seem unfair, it seems to go against the whole point of this great reform we had with the consumer financial protection agency and those things to protect us from predatory practices. >> why would anybody choose that kind of account from bank of america...

American financial system, i think theyve destabilized it putting in new rules and restrictions harder to balance risk and sustain credit. >> a financial protection bureau with oversee everything including credit card. >> credit card companies would no longer be able to mislead you with pages and pages of fine prints, no longer hidden fees or the predatory practices of unscrupulous lenders. >> some of which were already illegal. >> i think it should be named the consumer credit agency. >> it tig...

Sector and i will continue to do what i can to foster and support the dynamic private sector. but weve all seen what happens when there is inadequate oversight and insufficient transparency on wall street. the reforms making their way through congress will hold wall street accountable so we can help prevent another financial crisis like the one that were still recovering from. well put in place the toughest consumer financial protections in our history, while creating an independent agency for e...

The group from the house led by barney frank and a group from the senate pled by chris dodd reconciled bills and made the deal and will send the bill to their chambers by the fourth of july. they worked on it until 5:39 this morning. president obama spoke about this and what the bill means to you and me. >> credit card companies will longer be able to mislead you with pages and pages of fine print. you will no longer be subject to all kinds of hidden fees and penalties or the predatory practices...

I will continue top do what i can to foster and support the dynamic private sector. we have all seen what happens when theres inadequate oversight and insufficient transparency on wall street. the reforms making their way through congress will hold wall street accountable. so we can help prevent another financial crisis like the one we are still recovering from. we will put in place the toughest consumer financial protects in our history while creating an independent agency to enforce them. thro...

Consumer financial protections in our history while creating an independent agency to enforce them. through this agency well combine under one roof the consumer protection functions that currently are divided among half a dozen different agencies. now there will be one agency whose sole job will be to look out for you. credit card companies will no longer be able to mislead you with pages and pages of fine print. you will no longer be subject to all kinds of hidden fees and penalties or the pred...

Whose sole job will be to look out for you. credit card companies will no longer be able to mislead you with pages and pages of fine print. you will no longer be subject to all kinds of hidden fees and practices or the predatory practices of unscrupulous lenders. >> congressman, what do you make of this independent agency? is this going to be oversight in the financial documents? theres going to be alarms set off. what is the power of this independent agency? >> its a good thing. im glad that we...

Better regulated for the sake of main street. he made the case how the legislation is working its way through congress will benefit americans. >> first and foremost, you have a stake in it if youve ever been treated unfairly by a credit card, misled by pages of fine prints or ended up paying fees and penalties before. you have a stake if you took out a home loan, car loan or student loan and targeted by the predatory practices of unscrupulous lend zblirs in addressing that, the other goal is to ...

Says wall street needs to be better regulated for the sake of main street. he made the case how the legislation is working its way through congress will benefit americans. >> first and foremost, you have a stake in it if youve ever been treated unfairly by a credit card, misled by pages of fine prints or ended up paying fees and penalties before. you have a stake if you took out a home loan, car loan or student loan and targeted by the predatory practices of unscrupulous lend zblirs in addressin...