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July 21, 2011                                       
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AFR Statement on House Passage of H.R. 1315

Washington, DC – Americans for Financial Reform, a coalition of more than 250 national and …

Dodd-Frank Can’t Be the End of the Story
New Deal2.0 (Roosevelt Institute)
July 21, 2011
―One year after the passage of Dodd-Frank, Roosevelt Institute Fellow Mike Konczal invited experts and those on the front lines to weigh in …

Consumer Bureau Finds Support on Its First Day
Ben Protess (NYT/Dealbook)
July 21, 2011
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau formally opened for business on Thursday, much to the consternation of Congressional Republicans. But as conservative lawmakers step up …

Editorial – Consumer watchdog
Toledo Blade editorial
July 21, 2011
―The choice of former Attorney General Richard Cordray to head the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could add some bite to President Obama’s promise to protect consumers against …

Dodd-Frank rules slowly kick into consumers’ lives
Dorothy Zhang (Medill News Service)
July 21, 2011
―The Dodd-Frank law is slowly kicking into U.S. consumers‘ lives, one year after the most sweeping U.S. financial regulation since the Great Depression …

AFR sent a letter to members of Congress yesterday regarding a piece of legislation that would threaten the ability of the CFPB to sufficiently protect consumers. If enacted, this bill would virtually guarantee that the CFPB would be a weak and timid agency without the will or ability to curb the kind of financial abuses that caused the nation’s worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.