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	<title><![CDATA[Swiped!  Did The Credit Card Industry Just Hijack Credit Card Reform Legislation?]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-moroz/swiped-did-the-credit-car_b_203703.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>The prevailing wisdom in this week's press reports about credit card reform legislation now being debated in the Senate is that Senator Dodd's version is stronger than the <a href="http://www.themiddleclass.org/bill/credit-cardholders%E2%80%99-bill-rights-act-2009">Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights</a>, which passed the House easily last month. <em>The New York Times</em>' Carl Hulse <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/us/politics/13cong.html?scp=9&amp;sq=Credit%20Card&amp;st=cse">concluded</a>:</p>

<blockquote>[The Senate bill] goes farther than a measure already easily passed by the House in imposing an array of new restrictions on credit card companies.</blockquote>

<p><em>Politico</em>'s Victoria McGrane was slightly <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22393.html">more accurate</a>:</p>

<blockquote>The...</blockquote>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2009-05-14T19:31:00-04:00</date_published>
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