WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton is defending her long ties to the nation’s finance industry, bringing out allies to argue she would take a tough approach to regulating Wall Street.
Among them is former Rep. Barney Frank. He says it is wrong for anyone to suggest that lawmakers who pushed financial overhaul legislation in 2010 were influenced by donations from people who work on Wall Street.
Frank was one of the two primary authors of that law. He says it was approved over the objections of the industry and signed by President Barack Obama, whose 2008 campaign received large contributions from Wall Street.
Clinton has received millions in campaign donations from Wall Street in her career. Her ties to the industry were raised by rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in last weekend’s debate.
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