Stacie E. McGinn and Mark Chorazak: Still reeling from the financial crisis and preoccupied with defending innumerable other measures in the Dodd-Frank Act, retail bankers big and small watched…
Brandon Gold
When the chairmen of the Federal Reserve Board and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Acting Comptroller of the Currency express doubts about a regulation designed to eliminate seventy percent of a market, and when the queen and spokeswoman of consumer financial protection, Elizabeth Warren, refuses to comment on a financial rule supposedly enacted to protect consumers, one would expect a rational legislator to, at a minimum, delay such a measure until they could properly understand its ramifications. Dick Durbin, the number two democrat in the Senate, refuses to fit that mold. Instead, Durbin, the author of the self-titled “Durbin Amendment” to the Dodd-Frank Act, refuses to reconsider the legislation directing the Federal Reserve to limit debit card interchange fees and threatens to filibuster any bill brought before the Senate that seeks to delay its implementation.
