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.

Read U.S. PIRG and AFR’s issue brief outlining the 10 reasons we need the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau here.

Read today’s article from The Huffington Post about Wall Street opposition to financial reform here.

Read our letter opposing language in the FY2011 Appropriations Bill that would weaken the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau here.

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Mr. Chairman Capito, Ranking Member Maloney, Members of the Subcommittee:
My name is Adam Levitin, and I am an Associate Professor of Law at the Georgetown
University Law Center in Washington, D.C., where …

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“LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS TO IMPROVE THE STRUCTURE OF THE CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU”
April 6, 2011
Good morning, Chairwoman Capito, Ranking Member Maloney, and so many of my good friends here on the Subcommittee. …