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
Oppose Chambliss Amendment #3816 to Senate bill 3217 which attempts to weaken proposed derivatives regulations Dear Senator: The over 250 consumer, employee, investor, community and civil rights groups who are members of Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) write to express strong opposition to Amendment No. 3816 offered by Senator Chambliss. For all intents and purposes
Keep State Attorneys General on the Predatory Lending Beat Oppose Amendments to Further Preempt State Authority Dear Senator, We write on behalf of an unprecedented coalition of more than 250 national, state and local groups who have come together to reform the financial industry. Members of our coalition include consumer, civil rights, investor, retiree, community,
VOTE NO ON THE SHELBY CFPA SUBSTITUTE NO INDEPENDENCE, NO FUNDING FOR ENFORCEMENT, NO ENFORCEMENT OVER ANY BANKS NO AUTHORITY TO PROTECT FAMILIES Dear Senator, We write on behalf of the over 250 member organizations of Americans for Financial Reform to urge a No Vote on the dangerous Shelby substitute (amendment #3826) to Title X