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:
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 …

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 …

As the U.S. Senate debates measures to hold Wall Street accountable for the financial crisis, Commodities Market Oversight Committee (CMOC) supported a letter that hedge-fund manager Michael Masters has written to some of the nation’s …

The financial-industry spent $465 million lobbying in Washington in 2009, which was about $8 million more than in 2008.  (The Hill, 2/23/10; Center for Responsive Politics)

That’s $1.4 million a day spent on lobbying in 2009 …

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 are members of Americans for Financial Reform …