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New York Times: In Senate, a Renewed Effort on Financial Regulation

Submitted by admin on March 1, 2010 – 2:57 pm

Heather Booth, Executive Director of Americans for Financial Reform, was recently quoted in a New York Times article regarding the Senate’s work on financial reform and specifically the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

Heather Booth, executive director of Americans for Financial Reform, a coalition of groups that support the consumer agency, said that true independence would mean that the agency was “not subject to veto by the regulators whose failures got us into trouble in the first place.”

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