Without the small banks who have helped their communities by providing startup loans and assistance for entrepreneurs, "main street" could not have thrived and produced jobs. The Democrats' use of this tactic to "choke" off the rights of individuals and small businesses is repulsive and the antithesis of what our Constitution's limits on the power of do-gooders in government was all about.
Debate watchers, absent an explanation of Dodd-Frank's implications for individual citizens and the small business sector, may tend to just hear the words and not realize the critical dangers that D-F poses for their lives and that of their children.
Maybe this is what Rep. Maxine Waters was talking about...