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Oppose Chambliss Amendment #3816 to Senate Bill 3217 Which Attempts to Weaken Proposed Derivatives Regulations
May 12, 2010 – 2:29 pm

United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
May 7, 2010
Re:  Oppose Chambliss Amendment #3816 to Senate bill 3217 which attempts to weaken proposed derivatives regulations

Dear Senator:
The over 250 consumer, employee, investor, community and civil rights groups who …

AFR Supports Reed Amendment #3958 to End Private Equity Exemption
May 12, 2010 – 11:31 am

United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator,
We write on behalf of the over 250 member organizations of Americans for Financial Reform to urge a yes vote on the Reed-Johnson-Brown amendment offered to Restoring American Financial …

CMOC: Wall Street Dupes Big Business Into Fighting Against Reform
May 11, 2010 – 2:01 pm

For immediate release                              Contact: Simone Allen (404) 692-5102
May, 11, 2010

Wall Street Dupes Big Business Into Fighting Against Reform
End User Coalition Calls on Procter & Gamble, Caterpillar, Apple and Others to Leave Sham …

AFR to Senate: Oppose Brown-Hagan 3807 & Brown-Gregg 3872 / Co-Sponsor Merkley-Levin
May 11, 2010 – 1:55 pm

May 11, 2010
Re: Oppose Brown-Hagan 3807 & Brown-Gregg 3872 / Co-Sponsor Merkley-Levin
Dear Senator:
The over 250 consumer, employee, investor, community, small business and civil rights groups who are members of Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) …

Protect Investors from Wall Street Abuses
May 11, 2010 – 1:39 pm

Protect Investors from Wall Street Abuses:
Make Brokers and Swaps Dealers Act in Their Customers’ Best Interests
Click here for a pdf version of this letter.

The recent hearing in the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on Goldman …

CMOC Says: Keep Derivatives Reform Strong
May 11, 2010 – 1:12 pm

Our partners at CMOC (Commodity Markets Oversight Coalition) wrote this letter detailing loopholes that the big banks are trying to slip into the bill under the guise of a fake “derivatives end user” coalition, and …