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Congressman Rick Larsen on why he voted to roll back Dodd-Frank regulations

Rep. Rick Larsen speaks to the Everett (Wash.) Rotary in the Grand Vista Ballroom of Naval Station Everett in late August 2011.
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Rep. Rick Larsen speaks to the Everett (Wash.) Rotary in the Grand Vista Ballroom of Naval Station Everett in late August 2011.

Bill Radke talks to Congressman Rick Larsen, who broke with fellow Democrats yesterday to vote for a partial rollback of Dodd-Frank banking regulations. The regulations were originally put in place after the Great recession, to help stop the banking abuses that contributed to the recession. No other Washington state Democrat voted in favor of the rollback, but all the state's Republicans did.

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