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Bernie Sanders had put forth a proposal in the Senate to put a 15 percent cap on credit-card interest … Almost everyone has horror stories about consumer credit … In Washington, of course, it’s another story … So when something like this Sanders thing comes up, the outcome is usually pretty predictable. The measure got beat pretty soundly, but the Colorado delegation provided a comic asterisk to the defeat. Both of the state’s Democratic Senators, Michael Bennet and Mark Udall, initially voted “no.” But right before the vote, i.e. once it became clear that the bill had no chance of passing, they both switched sides and joined 31 other Senators in voting “yes.”

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