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Realtor Exemption Letter
October 13, 2009 The Honorable Barney Frank Chairman Committee on Financial Services United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Re: Realtor Exemption in H.R. 3126 Consumer Financial Protection Agency Dear Chairman Frank: Thank you for your leadership in advancing legislation to create a much-needed Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA). As civil rights and consumer
Coalition Letter to Rep. Frank
October 8, 2009 The Honorable Barney Frank Chairman Committee on Financial Services United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Re: School Loan Exemption in H.R. 3126 Consumer Financial Protection Agency Dear Chairman Frank: Thank you for your leadership in advancing legislation to create a much-needed Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA). As advocates for consumers,
Coalition Urges Congress to Take on Big Banks and Protect Consumers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Doug Gordon, 202-822-5200 DATE: October 7, 2009 Americans for Financial Reform: Congress Needs To Take On Big Banks, Protect Consumers Draft Legislative Language On Derivatives Is Not Enough; All Transaction Need to Be Transparent Washington, DC – Americans for Financial Reform released the following statement in advance of the House Financial
USA Today: Our view on consumer protection: How the banking lobby tries to undermine loan reform
On October 7, USA Today ran this excellent opinion piece. Here’s an excerpt: New financial watchdog could curb abusive practices, limit fine print. In Washington, it’s always easier to kill a new idea than to promote one. And that’s what the banking industry is counting on as it tries to murder, or at least maim,
Preemption and Regulatory Reform: Restore the States’ Traditional Role as “First Responder”
Download this white paper as a PDF. A National Consumer Law Center White Paper, September 2009 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Consumer protection in the financial world has been dramatically weakened in the last several years by preemption of state consumer protection laws. Broad preemption of state law is a recent phenomenon; for most of the 150 years