Americans for Financial Reform

Government Category: Advocacy Documents

Letter to Congress: AFR, 254 organizations oppose budget riders that would undermine financial reform

“We… urge you to oppose any funding bills that include provisions rolling back or undermining financial reform. At the end of last year Congress wisely rejected multiple efforts to use the budget process to force through unrelated ideological riders, including changes in financial regulation that would undermine consumer protections, endanger financial security, or reduce accountability for big banks. It is vitally important that members remain committed to opposing such riders again this year. “

Letter to Congress: AFR Calls on the House Financial Services Committee to Let the SEC Do Its Job, Oppose the SEC Regulatory Accountability Act

“On behalf of Americans for Financial Reform, we are writing to express our opposition to the “SEC Regulatory Accountability Act”. Despite the fact that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is already subject to extensive statutory economic analysis requirements, and has greatly increased its investment in economic analysis in recent years, this legislation would impose a host of unworkable new bureaucratic and administrative burdens on the agency. “

Letter to Congress: AFR Urges Members of the House Financial Services Committee to Protect Investors and Oppose the Investment Advisors Modernization Act

“On behalf of Americans for Financial Reform, we are writing to express our opposition to the “Investment Advisors Modernization Act of 2016”. Far from modernizing the regulation of investment advisors, this legislation would roll back the clock to the years before private fund advisors were subject to elementary oversight measures, measures that numerous documented abuses have shown to be necessary for investor protection. “

Letter to Congress: AFR, 26 Organizations Oppose Inclusion of Discriminatory Auto Lending Language in Appropriations Bill

“We, the undersigned organizations, ask you to oppose harmful riders to the Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) fiscal year 2017 appropriations that would obstruct the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s ability to protect consumers. In particular, we urge you to oppose language mirroring S. 2663, the so-called “Reforming CFPB Indirect Auto Financing Guidance Act.” “