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Stated position

Pressing to pass his Credit Card Competition Act (which would require large card-issuing banks to offer at least two network options to process credit transactions, aimed at the Visa-Mastercard duopoly), Durbin pledged to keep siding with consumers and merchants over the card industry: "I will always choose Main Street over Wall Street."

Stated position. What this official has said they believe on this issue — a sourced claim, shown distinctly from any assessment of what they did. It is never scored and never affects the Integrity Score.

Derived from a tracked promise: Pressing to pass his Credit Card Competition Act (which would require large card-issuing banks to offer at least two network options to proc

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