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.

Jill Biden goes on booktour, telling the world that she was seriously concerned about Joe Biden's health during her husband's 2024 debate meltdown, but insisting that she didn't see signs of cognitive decline.

Plus hundreds of faculty at the University of

California call for a return to standardized testing. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street

Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues on the WSJ's opinion pages, columnist Bill McGern,

and Alicia Finley. Joe Biden is releasing a memoir next week called The View from the East Wing, covering her four years as first lady.

And the first news from her book tour involves what became the one and only campaign issue for Joe Biden in 2024, the one that ultimately caused him to withdraw from the race, that being his age and capacity to continue in office until 86 years old.

Specifically, Jill Biden revealed her in-the-moment reaction

to the president's halting June debate performance against Donald Trump.

Here she is during an interview with CBS.

I wasn't horrified.

I was frightened because I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since.

Never.

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