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Potts: Congress Must Not Allow Lobbying Efforts to Block Pro-Consumer Financial Planning Legislation

By Tom Potts
Special to Roll Call
March 18, 2010, 12:35 p.m.

Quietly hidden amid debates over which agency should house a consumer financial protection agency is a simple consumer financial protection proposal. It would safeguard Main Street residents from malpractice by people claiming to be financial planners.

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