Read the letter from The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights urging President Obama to nominate Professor Elizabeth Warren to head the CFPB here.

Read our letter here.

Read the group letter signed by AFR and other consumer and civil rights groups to the CFPB here.

AFR signed on in support of a letter sent to members of Congress today regarding four pieces of legislation that would threaten the ability of the CFPB to sufficiently protect consumers.If enacted, these bills 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.

View the press release in pdf form here.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:                                              CONTACT:
May 4, 2011                                                                            Travis Plunkett, 202-939-1004
Jack Gills, 202-737-0766
HOUSE MOVES TO HANDCUFF NEW CONSUMER FINANCIAL AGENCY
–Legislation Will Give Discredited Banking Regulators Vast Power to Block Needed …

44 Senate Republicans sent a letter to President Obama refusing to confirm any director to the CFPB unless the Bureau is significantly weakened. Read the full letter here.