Joint Letter: Letter to Congress from 104 Groups in Support of COVID-19 Debt Collection Protections
Letter from 104 groups urging Congress to enact COVID-19 debt collection protections
Category Archives: Letters to Congress
Joint Letter: Coalition Letter Urging Congress to Strengthen and Clarify Coronavirus-Related Data Disclosures
Detailed and timely data disclosures are required to ensure Coronavirus-related expenditures and benefits are being delivered to the public as Congress intended.
Letters to Congress: AFR Letter in Support of the Senior Investor Pandemic and Fraud Protection Act.
AFR sent a letter in support of the Senior Investor Pandemic and Fraud Protection Act.
Letters to Congress: Joint Letter in Support of HJ Res 90
AFR joined many national, state and local partners in a letter of support of HJ Res. 90, a disapproval resolution that would overturn the OCC’s Community Reinvestment Act rule that was finalized in May.
Joint Letter: AFR, SBPC and 30 orgs urge HELP Committee to Oppose Liability Shields for Colleges during COVID-19
AFR, SBPC and 30 organizations Oppose “Liability Shields” for Colleges Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic Americans for Financial Reform joined with the Student Borrower Protection Center in leading a to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions opposing any effort to shield
Joint letter: CARES Act must include conditions for all companies that receive Federal financial support
The next COVID response legislation, must include clear conditions for all companies that receive Federal financial support that require worker retention and protection as well as limitations that ensure that government money will not be used to profit corporate insiders and Wall Street speculators.
Letter to Congress: Coalition Urges Support for the CORE Act
We strongly urge that Congress strengthen the oversight and anti-corruption measures over the $3 trillion and growing Coronavirus relief legislative programs. Our organizations represent broad and diverse constituencies across the ideological spectrum concerned about the potential for fraud, waste and abuse of the nation’s largest spending packages in history.
Letter to Congress: 17 Organizations Urge Immediate Bipartisan Action to Begin Oversight Functions of the New House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis
It’s crucial the new House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis start oversight work as soon as possible. By doing so, the Subcommittee can make recovery efforts more effective and guarantee that government agencies are good stewards of public money.
Letter to Congress: Letter in Support of the Medical Debt Relief Act
AFR and our partners sent a letter in support of including the Medical Debt Relief Act as part of future covid-19 relief.
Letter to Congress: 27 Organizations Support the Pandemic Anti-Monopoly Act.
Public advocates sent a letter to Congress in support of the Pandemic Anti-Monopoly Act, a proposal from Senator Elizabeth Warren and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to prevent big corporations and Wall Street investors from exploiting the pandemic to further consolidate their economic and political power.