FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Contact: Nick Jacobs, 202-618-6430 or njacobs@bettermarkets.com

Washington, D.C. – Dennis Kelleher, President and CEO of Better Markets, issued this statement following the Senate passage of S. 2155 today:

“Marking the tenth anniversary of the collapse of Bear Stearns and the onset of the 2008 financial crisis, the Senate today passed a bill that will significantly roll back financial protection rules designed to prevent the biggest banks in the country from crashing the financial system and needing taxpayer bailouts again.

“The bill is a Trojan Horse claiming to be all about little community banks, but in fact reduces the oversight and regulation of 26 of the biggest banks in the country, many of which received billions in taxpayer bailouts and have racked up billions in fines for repeatedly breaking the law.  The biggest beneficiaries of this Senate bill are bailout recipients, recidivist lawbreakers, and foreign-owned banks.  They are not community banks or the tens of millions of Americans who suffered from the last crash.” 

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