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Twenty-one centrist Democratic lawmakers raised concerns about the provision, which banks have fought to keep out of the social policy package. Meanwhile, the White House made no explicit mention of it in a draft summary of the bill.
equality, a federal appeals court has struck down the defense of marriage act following a lawsuit by the state of massachusetts and others. >> it is unconstitutional for the federal government to create a system of first and second class marriages and it does harm to massachusetts and families of massachusetts every day. >> all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. a federal appeals court has struck down the defense america act, known as doma, for discriminating against same-sex couples. the unanimous decisi...
court has struck down the defense of marriage act following a lawsuit by the state of massachusetts and others. >> it is unconstitutional for the federal government to create a system of first and second class marriages and it does harm to massachusetts and families of massachusetts every day. >> all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. a federal appeals court has struck down the defense america act, known as doma, for discriminating against same-sex couples. the unanimous decision down the federal governme...
>> tonight on frontline... for 30 years, americans have played a game with the banks, with the banks holding all the cards. >> changing the terms, raising interest rates, changing the rules of the games. >> consumers use plastic for 100,000 transactions a minute. it has produced billions in profits, and nearly a trillion dollars in debt. >> americans people simply cannot pay back the level of debt that has grown over the last 30 years. >> and the credit card industry even played a hand in the economic meltdown. >> you had consumers refinancing their homes to pay off all their credit ...
>> tonight on frontline... for 30 years, americans have played a game with the banks, with the banks holding all the cards. >> changing the terms, raising interest rates, changing the rules of the games. >> consumers use plastic for 100,000 transactions a minute. it has produced billions in profits, and nearly a trillion dollars in debt. >> americans people simply cannot pay back the level of debt that has grown over the last 30 years. >> and the credit card industry even played a hand in the economic meltdown. >> you had consumers refinancing their homes to pay off all their credit ...