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AFR Press Statement: President Obama’s Recess Appointment of Richard Cordray
January 4, 2012 – 11:02 am | Comments Off

Consumers won today when President Obama defied Wall Street interests to make a recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. President Obama stood with consumers and families in making this crucial decision.

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Elizabeth Warren To Head Consumer Protection Bureau?
July 13, 2010 – 10:59 am

The Huffington Post recently published an article speculating that Elizabeth Warren will likely be appointed as head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as she is the top candidate right now. Here is an …

LA Times: GOP Senators’ Support Assures Passage of Financial Reform Bill
July 13, 2010 – 10:37 am

A recent article in the Los Angeles Times talked about how the support of Republican Senators Scott Brown (MA) and Olympia J. Snowe (ME) assure that the Financial Reform Bill will make it to President …

Media Advisory: Senator Grassley Must Finish the Job for Main Street
July 13, 2010 – 8:48 am

MEDIA ADVISORY
July 13, 2010
Amy Logsdon, Iowa Citizen Action Network, alogsdon@iowacan.org
Senator Grassley Must Finish the Job for Main Street
Advocates Urge Senator Grassley to Bring Financial Reform Over the Finish Line and …

IndyStar: Out of the Casino, Into the Open
July 12, 2010 – 3:04 pm

Ronnetta Spalding, of AFR’s Indianapolis, Indiana field office, had this Op-Ed placed in the IndyStar recently.  Click here to go to the IndyStar website.
House-Senate conferees have agreed on a Wall Street reform bill that …

Statement by Frank Knapp, Jr., President and CEO of The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce
July 12, 2010 – 11:52 am

July 12, 2010.
The last time Margot and I were together pushing for Wall Street reform, it was April 21st of this year in a press conference at the U.S. Capitol with Senators Dick Durbin, Jack …

America’s Small Businesses Want Strong Financial Reform
July 12, 2010 – 11:51 am

Statement Margot Dorfman, CEO U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce July 12, 2010
On behalf of the U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce and the millions of small businesses, employees of small businesses and communities all across the …