[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6515-6516]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           WALL STREET REFORM

  (Mr. MILLER of North Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)

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  Mr. MILLER of North Carolina. Senator McConnell said yesterday about 
Wall Street reform that ``as you look at the bill closer and closer, it 
is mostly about Main Street.'' Yes, Wall Street reform is about Main 
Street because Americans trying to make an honest living on Main Street 
are being bled dry by Wall Street.
  The vulgar excesses of Wall Street, the bonuses, and the profits, and 
all the rest are at the expense of working and middle class American 
families. Ordinary Americans know that the fine print that big banks' 
lawyers wrote in their credit card contracts, and their mortgages, and 
their overdraft agreements were filled with traps to take their income, 
and their life savings, and who knows what worthless junk Wall Street 
unloaded on their pension funds.
  Every issue I have worked on I've compromised, but there comes a time 
to pick a side. I pick the side of working and middle class Americans 
trying to make an honest living to support themselves and their 
families.

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