The Leadership Conference: Don’t Hamstring the CFPB
Read our letter opposing language in the FY2011 Appropriations Bill that would weaken the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau here.
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AFR Statement Subcommittee Markup of FY 2012 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Bill
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 16, 2011 CONTACT: John Carey at 202-466-1854 john@ourfinancialsecurity.org AFR Statement on Subcommittee Markup of FY 2012 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Bill Washington, DC – Americans for Financial Reform, a coalition of more than 250 national and state organizations working
AFR to Congress: Don’t Weaken the CFPB in FY 2012 Appropriations Bill
Read our letter opposing provisions within the FY 2012 Appropriations bill that would weaken the CFPB, hurt consumers, and the economy here.
The Leadership Conference Urges Pres. Obama to Nominate Prof. Elizabeth Warren to CFPB
Read the letter from The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights urging President Obama to nominate Professor Elizabeth Warren to head the CFPB here.
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Call Your Senators Right Now
Senators could be voting today on proposals to gut the CFPB and to repeal ALL of the progress we made on financial reform. In a last minute development, opponents of financial reform are pushing for votes TODAY on amendments to gut the new Consumer Financial
AFR Opposes the Moran and DeMint Amendments to Weaken the CFPB and Wall Street Reform
Read our letter here.
The Warren Court
The New Yorker The Financial Page by James Surowiecki June 13, 2011 “Elizabeth Warren may well be the most popular person in Washington. When she was head of the Congressional Oversight Panel on TARP, her willingness to go after Wall Street, the Treasury Department,
One Arm Tied Behind Your Back Is No Way to Fight Financial Crime
By: Janis Bowdler, Director, Wealth-Building Policy Project, NCLR Channel: Economics, Social Univision News Tumblr “Being a consumer of financial products isn’t easy these days. Fine print, changing technology, and “gotcha” fees are enough to make you put your money back under the mattress, but that
Access to Consumer Complaints Ensures Accountability
Read the group letter signed by AFR and other consumer and civil rights groups to the CFPB here.