Access to affordable credit helps me pay my employees, but I don't really need it.

Infliction is killing me!

But who cares? Big retailers are making record profits!

That's why we support the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill!

See? Banks and credit unions help small businesses make payroll.

This bill would cut the vital resources they need.

While increasing megastore profits, they deserve it. Don't they?

Tell Congress, stop the Durban Marshall money grab for corporate megastores.

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Welcome to this special edition of Potomac Watch.

I'm Paul Giego, and today I'm delighted to say I'm one-on-one with my friend Ben Sasse.

Welcome, Ben. Good to see you.

Hello, friend. Good to be with you. So, Nebraska by birth, husband, father of two

daughters and a son, a former president of Midland Lutheran College, then a two-term senator, condolences

on that. Thank you. Then president of the University of Florida. And a would-be journalist.

I should tell the audience that last fall, you and I had agreed that you would become a columnist

for the Wall Street Journal and our new Free Expression newsletter.

And then I kind of pansied out on you for a while.

Well, only a couple weeks later, you called and told Matt Hennessy, my colleague, and I about

your pancreatic cancer stage four diagnosis, which was dreadful to hear.

But I have to say, we've talked about it since we're eager to publish anything

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