Joint Letter: Letter to Congress Supporting the Protecting Your Credit Score Act of 2019
Support letter for the Protecting Your Credit Score Act of 2019
Category Archives: Letters to Congress
Letter to Congress: Broad Coalition Supports the Stop Wall Street Looting Act
Today, private equity and hedge fund managers take advantage of gaps in regulations to make billions of dollars by looting real-world businesses and engaging in abusive practices without any accountability. They also pay taxes at a lower rate than teachers and firefighters. The undersigned organizations support the Stop Wall Street Looting Act (S.2155 / HR 3848 ). This legislation would eliminate tax, securities and bankruptcy law carve-outs that allow these Wall Street titans to make billions at the expense of workers, communities and pensions.
Letter to Congress: Letter in Support of the Small Business Lending Fairness Act
AFR and partners sent a letter in support of the Small Business Lending Fairness Act, which protects small businesses from predatory lenders by ensuring their ability to defend their businesses in the justice system by codifying the ban on confessions of judgments in consumer and small business loans.
Letter to Congress: Letter in Support of Debt Collection Bills
AFR and partners sent a letter in support of the package of debt collection bills to strengthen consumer protections for debt collection through broadening the FDCPA’s protections by expanding and clarifying the definition of debt and placing needed limits on collection efforts.
Letters to Congress: AFR letter to House members urging improvements to CFTC reauthorization bill
View or download a PDF version of the letter. November 7, 2019 Dear Representative: We are writing on behalf of Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) concerning the reauthorization bill for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) that was passed last week by the House Agriculture
Joint Letter: Letter to Congress in support of the Consumer Credit Control Act
Coalition letter in support of the Consumer Credit Control Act.
Letter to Congress: Joint Letter Supporting URLA Legislation
AFR Language Access Task Force and partner organizations sent up a letter in support of legislation to restore the URLA language preference question.
Joint Letter: 42 Orgs Urge Senator Alexander to Protect Consumers and Taxpayers
On October 9th, AFR joined with 41 organizations representing in a letter to Senator Lamar Alexander expressing concerns regarding his recently introduced bill, the Student Aid Improvement Act. Unfortunately, the bill fails to include any provisions that hold low-quality and sometimes predatory colleges accountable, and better protect students and taxpayers. Any reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA) must include robust consumer protections.
Joint Letter: 63 Orgs Urging Appropriators to Protect Pell in FY20 Spending Bill
Today, Americans for Financial Reform joined 62 other organizations on a joint letter to Senate appropriators urging them to oppose the overall Labor-HHS-Education spending allocation and the accompanying proposed $1.3 billion rescission from the Pell reserve fund and to instead fully retain all current Pell funds where they belong – in the Pell Grant program.
Letter to Congress: Letter in Support of Federal Reserve’s Real Time Payments System
Letter in support of the Federal Reserve’s real-time payments system and the need for consumer protections in real time payments