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 a special edition of Potomac Watch. This week, we're in Washington, D.C. at a W.S.J. Opinion Live conference. And so today we're bringing you a taste of that in-person journalism.

To see more from WSJ Opinion Live, please visit WSJ.com.

And here's Wall Street Journal editor at large, Jerry Baker, in conversation with Texas Senator Ted Cruz.

Let's get started.

There's a lot to talk about.

I want to talk about the future of the Republican Party generally about what's going to happen over the next few years, but there's a lot

of news going on. So let's start with the lot that's been happening in the last week or so.

And let me start, if I may, with the Pope, an unusual place perhaps to start. Do you fancy the Republican Party running against

the Pope and the Catholic Church for the next couple of years? No, I'm quite confident that will

not happen. And I will say, look, you've obviously got an argument between the Pope and Donald

J. Trump. If there's one thing I'm

confident about, it's that both of them are fully capable of speaking for themselves. And so I

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