House committee wants to delay protection for service members against predatory lending

In this year's proposed National Defense Authorization Act, currently before the House Armed Services Committee, there's a provision to delay for one year DoD regulations to protect service members from predatory lenders. What's the year for? Further study.

Rep. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, herself a veteran, is expected to try to remove the delay provision.

Here's Public Citizen's statement opposing the delay.

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