Category Archives: Letters to Congress

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Oppose Snowe-Pryor #3883 Regulatory “Flexibility” Act

Oppose Snowe-Pryor #3883 Regulatory “Flexibility” Act Adds Delays And Red Tape, Encourages Wasteful Litigation May 13, 2010 United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator: We write on behalf of Americans for Financial Reform, an unprecedented coalition of over 250 national, state and local groups

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Support Amendment 3772 to Create a Financial Consumers’ Association

May 11, 2010 United States Senate Washington, DC 20500 Re: Support SA 3772 to create Financial Consumers’ Association Dear Senator: We write on behalf of Americans for Financial Reform, an unprecedented coalition of more than 250 national, state and local groups who have come together

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AFR Supports Reed Amendment #3958 to End Private Equity Exemption

United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator, We write on behalf of the over 250 member organizations of Americans for Financial Reform to urge a yes vote on the Reed-Johnson-Brown amendment offered to Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 (S. 3217). As you

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AFR: Avoid CFPA Carve Outs

May 6, 2010 The Honorable Harry Reid The Capitol, S-221 Washington, DC 20050 Dear Senator Reid: As members of Americans for Financial Reform, a coalition of more than 250 consumer, labor, investor, community, civil rights and business groups, we write to you today to ask

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Protect Investors from Wall Street Abuses

Protect Investors from Wall Street Abuses: Make Brokers and Swaps Dealers Act in Their Customers’ Best Interests Click here for a pdf version of this letter. The recent hearing in the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on Goldman Sachs has awakened many people to the extent

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CMOC Says: Keep Derivatives Reform Strong

Our partners at CMOC (Commodity Markets Oversight Coalition) wrote this letter detailing loopholes that the big banks are trying to slip into the bill under the guise of a fake “derivatives end user” coalition, and clarifies that authentic users of derivatives to hedge have all