[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12399-12400]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           WALL STREET REFORM

  (Mr. ETHERIDGE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ETHERIDGE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call on Congress to rein 
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Wall Street's abuses. We need to put in place commonsense rules of the 
road. For too long, Wall Street fat cats gambled with our future and 
ran our economy into the ditch. North Carolina families I hear from 
every day paid the price. Why? Because Wall Street's protectors looked 
the other way while abuses ran rampant. We've seen what that means to 
Main Street and rural America--8 million jobs lost, $17 trillion in 
hard-earned family savings--savings for retirement, college, for home 
buying--all wiped out overnight.
  Today, we have an opportunity to say ``enough.'' But the same folks 
who said ``no'' to helping out-of-work Americans yesterday are trying 
to say ``no'' to reining in Wall Street abuses today. I call on my 
colleagues to put aside their differences and put America before Wall 
Street, and join me in supporting the Wall Street Reform and Consumer 
Protection Act.

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