Rep. Anna Paulina Luna
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So I actually was on Oversight with all those people except for Fetterman.
And what I'll tell you is that Oversight tends to bring out the characters for sure.
And what I will say is that actually I have been able to on certain things like with AOC, I introduced a piece of legislation.
So there was a partner bill in the Senate with Bernie Sanders and I think Josh Hawley to cap credit card interest at 10 percent.
And then we started getting I started getting a lot of heat for it because of people like you can't do that.
And I was like, well, most of these banks that we're talking about are actually taking government bailout.
So if you're taking a government bailout and you're essentially operating off the goodwill of the federal government, then you should be held as standard.
Because then you have predatory lending, and what ends up happening is some of these people will max out their credit cards for the rest of their life.
They're paying back the debt.
And then also there's something that we've been able to introduce.
So this is like the more populist representation where you see both the right and the left kind of agree on certain things.
And there's another bill that I'm introducing with another Democrat and another Republican that's a more moderate Republican.
But it's actually to cap student loan interest at 2.5%.
So what they do is they actually โ and I've been quoted on this, but it creates an indentured servant basically for the rest of their life.
They're paying off this debt and you can never actually โ
For people that are actually trying to better themselves that might have to take out loans for that, it's crippling.
And then they actually can't get a good start at being contributing members of society because they're always functioning in the debt.