In concert with other efforts to prevent debanking, two Republican senators have introduced legislation to bar insured depository institutions from certain government contracts if the IDI or its affiliate refuses to do business with lawful enterprises they dislike on what the bill describes as social-policy grounds. The bill is very brief and thus does not provide an administrative framework for implementation in areas such as determining which entities banks inappropriately dislike and which contracts are to be barred.
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