United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 12 May 2010 OPPOSE CARPER #3949 GIVING NATIONAL BANKS IMMUNITY FROM COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL AND STATE CONSUMER PROTECTION LAWS Don’t Take States and AGs Off The Predatory Lending Beat Dear Senator: We write on behalf of Americans for Financial Reform, an unprecedented coalition of over 250 national, state and
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 know, we are a coalition of more than 250 national,
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 that you stay strong in opposing any special interest carve
May 11, 2010 Re: Oppose Brown-Hagan 3807 & Brown-Gregg 3872 / Co-Sponsor Merkley-Levin Dear Senator: The over 250 consumer, employee, investor, community, small business and civil rights groups who are members of Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) write to express our opposition to attempts to weaken the bill’s “Volcker Rule” limitations on risky trading in
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 to which Wall Street firms have abandoned all sense of
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 the exemptions they have requested already in the bill. Click