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‘Friend-versus-friend’ debit fight tests lobbyists’ mettle

Big banks were an easy mark; now advocates for community banks, credit unions and retailers are forcing a reluctant choice RELATED CONTENT Win or lose, Top Lobbyists wear many hats to Hill battles A note on this report Revisiting last year’s Top Lobbyists: No slowing down 2010 Top Lobbyists 2009 Top Lobbyists 2008 Top Lobbyists It’s only a 10-page amendment in the 2,300-page Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law. But by making those pages about Main Street rather than Wall Street, an unusual alliance of banks and credit unions on one side and a broad coalition of retailers on the other have brought a civil war to the halls of Congress and ranged skilled association… Read More