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- By Tamara Draut
That's right. The Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit of the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing today on credit card marketing to college students. And even though I know a lot of you in the C-SPAN set were watching the streaming feed on theCommittee web site, I'm here to give a blow-by-blow account of the proceedings for anyone who may have missed it.
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How Shady Lenders and Failed Economic Policies are Drowning Americans in Debt

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