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McCain, and some journalists, claim that the S.190 bill - shot down in 2006 - would have averted the current financial crisis. This tiny bit of info has been spun in all directions to the point where I didn't know what to believe. These claims make one small but powerful assumption: that it would have averted the financial crisis. Would it really have done all that? What was the bill really about and why did so many vote against it?