Letters to Congress: Make New Investments in the Pell Grant Program
AFR joined a letter urging appropriators to make bold new investments in the Pell Grant program.
Category Archives: Letters to Congress
Letter to Congress: Oppose Legislation Undermining Stable CFPB Funding
AFR and partners submitted a letter to the House Financial Services Committee in opposition to the TABS Act.
Letters to Congress: Defend the Department of Labor Rule that Safeguards Workers’ Retirement Security
AFR and Public Citizen led a letter to members of Congress, urging them to oppose a Congressional Review Act Resolution seeking to nullify the Department of Labor’s important new rule that safeguards workers’ retirement security. Over sixty organizations signed on to the letter.
Letters to Congress: Letter on FTX Hearing and Digital Asset Policy
AFR and Demand Progress led a group of consumer advocates and public interest organizations to send this letter to Congress, asking Members to take a more deliberative and systemic approach to advancing policies to regulate digital assets. The letter urged Congress to resist pursuing legislative proposals compromised by crypto industry influence or that do not adequately address the systemic problems found within the digital asset industry. Instead, the signers called on Congress to empower financial regulators to use their existing authorities and prioritize consumer and investor protection over the digital asset industry’s largely unproven promises.
Letters to Congress: Support for the Close the Shadow Banking Loophole Act
AFR joined a joint coalition made up of consumer advocates and bank trade groups on this letter to Congress to express our support of the Close the Shadow Banking Loophole Act recently introduced by Senators Brown, Casey, and Van Hollen. This bill will close the Industrial Loan Company charter loophole that allows Big Tech and other large commercial firms from owning a bank without adequate oversight.
Letters to Congress: Letter in Support of Karla Gilbride’s Nomination
AFR joined a letter supporting the nomination of Karla Gilbride to serve as General Counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Letter: Investigate Private Equity Role in Emergency Medicine
AFR joined a letter from a partner organization, Take Medicine Back, to the North Carolina attorney general about the role of private equity in the corporate practice of emergency medicine.
Letters to Congress: Repeal Taxation of Pell Grants
AFR joined a letter to Congress in support of repealing taxation of Pell Grants.
Letters to Congress: Letter Calling for Housing Investments in Revised Reconciliation Bill
AFR joined a letter calling on Congress to include historic, equity-minded housing investments in a revised budget reconciliation bill to narrow the racial wealth gap and increase fair and sustainable homeownership opportunities for communities of color.
Letters to Congress: Letter in Support of Housing Fairness Act and Downpayment Toward Equity Act
AFR joined a letter in support of the Housing Fairness Act and the Downpayment Toward Equity Act.