Joint Letter: Letter to Congress in support of the Consumer Credit Control Act
Coalition letter in support of the Consumer Credit Control Act.
Category Archives: Letters to Congress
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
Letter to Congress: Joint Letter in Support of the Overdraft Protection Act of 2019
On September 9, 2019, 34 organizations sent a letter in support of the Overdraft Protection Act of 2019.
Letter to Congress: AFR Letter in Support of HR 1423, the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act (FAIR Act)
On September 9, 2019, AFR submitted a letter of support for HR 1643, the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (FAIR) Act to the House Judiciary Committee.
Letters to Congress: Statement to House Financial Services Committee on Facebook Libra Proposal
The AFR Education Fund sent a statement for the record to the House Financial Services Committee concerning Facebook’s proposal for the Libra digital token and payment system. The statement describes ways in which Facebook is attempting to create an unregulated financial product of potentially global scale and the dangers this would pose to the users of the token and the broader financial system.
Letter to Congress: Letter to House Financial Services Committee on Credit Reporting Package
Credit reports and credit scores play a critical role in the economic lives of Americans. They are the gatekeeper for affordable credit, insurance, rental housing, and sometimes unfortunately even a job. Yet they suffer from unacceptable rates of inaccuracy. This package would enact a sea change that would make the American credit reporting system more accurate and fairer to consumers.
Joint Letter: 8 groups support the Stop Bad Robocalls Act
AFR joined 7 other groups to express support for HR 3755, the Stop Bad Robocalls Act, which provides for enhanced protections against robocalls by: instructing the FCC to issue meaningful and protective regulations interpreting the TCPA to enforce the requirements for consent for unwanted robocalls, mandating