Washington, D.C. – Dennis Kelleher, President and CEO of Better Markets, issued this statement following the release of Senate Banking Committee Chairman Richard Shelby’s Wall Street deregulation bill:

“Wall Street and its many lobbyists will cheer Chairman Shelby’s bill. It is just the latest in a series of Trojan Horse bills that try to hide Wall Street’s special interest loopholes behind community banks. Rather than dangerously deregulating Wall Street’s handful of too big to fail banks, Congress should focus on helping real community banks, which fund and finance businesses, jobs and growth. Given the bipartisan, supermajority support for that, the Chairman’s bill is a regrettable missed opportunity.”

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