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You're kidding, right?
"the question that puzzles me is why anyone is listening to the mortgage industry's herd of lobbyists. These are the people who said the industry didn't need regulation, that high-risk mortgages could be turned into low-risk bonds, and that everything was perfectly safe "
The answer is simple enough. Polititions, and particularly Republican polititions, don't listen to rational arguments. They listen to campaign contributions.
A list needs to be kept and published of every Senator who either votes against cloture or against this bill when it does come up for a vote and published in each of their home district daily newspapers.