IATP / AFR Comment on Position Limits
The Institute on Agriculture and Trade Policy and Americans for Financial Reform submitted a joint comment on position limits for commodities to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Government Category: Advocacy Documents
Letter to Congress: AFR and 43 Organizations Urge Congress to Support the CFPB
AFR and 43 additional organizations sent a letter to members of Congress urging them to oppose any efforts to dismantle, weaken, or change the structure of the CFPB, which was established by Congress to ensure that markets work in an open, transparent, and fair way for consumers. Failure to appropriately regulate the consumer financial marketplace was a central cause of the financial crisis that devastated the U.S. and global economies; the CFPB is a shining success story of the efforts to correct the mistakes and close the gaps that led to that failure. The letter urges members of Congress to support the CFPB in fulfilling its consumer protection mission, rather than undermine it.
AFR Comment Letter: On Forward Contracts With Embedded Volumetric Optionality
Download the letter here.
Joint Letter: FCC Should Maintain Consumer and Privacy Protections for Cell Phone Users
Don’t open the floodgates to a wave of “wrong number” calls to cell phones, say AFR, NCLC and more than 75 national and state groups in a letter urging the FCC to stand by the safeguards of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
AFR Letter: AFR Again Urges Congress to Preserve Financial Protections, and Reject HR 37
AFR sent an updated letter to members of Congress, urging them to oppose HR 37, “Promoting Job Creation and Reducing Small Business Burdens Act.” This legislation includes numerous changes that could have significant negative impacts on regulators ability to police the financial markets so that they function safely and transparently.
AFR Letter: Reject HR 185, the Regulatory Accountability Act
AFR sent a letter to members of Congress, urging them to oppose HR 185, the “Regulatory Accountability Act.” This legislation would hamstring agencies charged with the oversight of our largest banks by requiring them to comply with a host of additional bureaucratic and procedural requirements designed to make effective action virtually impossible.