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May 20, 2010

Anti-Reform Derivatives Lobbyists Outnumber Pro-Reformers 11 to 1
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New figures, meanwhile, show the number of financial industry lobbyists
opposing an overhaul of the derivatives market outnumber pro-reform
lobbyists by a ratio of eleven to one. The group Public Citizen says 903
lobbyists have worked to oppose the reform compared to the seventy-nine
working for its passage.



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