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Elizabeth Warren’s sad 2020 opposition to Dodd-Frank reform

By Tom Rogan
Published March 15, 2018 6:33pm ET
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Elizabeth Warren’s sad 2020 opposition to Dodd-Frank reform
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a key member of the Banking Committee, expresses her opposition to a move in the Senate to pass legislation that would roll back some of the safeguards Congress put into place after a financial crisis rocked the nation's economy ten years ago, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 6, 2018. Warren, who ran for office in the aftermath of the great recession in 2008, serves as ranking member of the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection. | (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

It will burnish her left-wing credentials for 2020, but Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has let down small town America by opposing Dodd-Frank reform legislation.

There’s a reason the legislation that passed the Senate on Wednesday isn’t just bipartisan (it passed with 67 votes to 31). It’s because it’s common sense.

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