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To The Contrary Podcast, July 23, 2010
TTC panelists discuss: Speaker Nancy Pelosi 's influence in American politics and the federal government investigating whether some mortgage lenders illegally denied home loans to pregnant women. The panelists are (in order of opening question response): Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC); The Heritage Foundation's Genevieve Wood; PoliticsDaily.com Editor-in-Chief Melinda Henneberger; and Conservative Commentator Tara Setmayer.

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Discussion on financial regulatory reform and whether or not Nancy Pelosi is the most powerful woman in American politics:

"Clearly the most powerful--handed a Herbert Hoover legacy, she became FDR in a skirt."
~Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, (D-DC)~
"Powerful perhaps, but how is the architect of the Titanic remembered?"
~Tara Setmayer, Conservative Commentator~

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