**Audio of Call Available Here** Washington, DC – Americans for Financial Reform and our 250 coalition partners applaud the Senate for rejecting – on a bipartisan basis – the sham that was Sen. Shelby’s “consumer” amendment to the Wall Street accountability currently being debated in the
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Press Conference Call TODAY, May 6 at 2:30 PM ET*** Consumer Advocates Expose Sham GOP Proposal Washington, DC – On Thursday, May 6 at 2:30 pm, advocates who have led the fight for tough, new rules to protect consumers from tricks and traps of mortgage companies, car dealers,
This information is courtesy of the Center for Responsible Lending. Issue: The Senate financial reform bill, S. 3217 – section 1044, gives the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency far too much power to override (“preempt”) state consumer protection laws. To avoid another financial
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
Read the full editorial here. It’s a springtime sales event for America’s auto dealers. Over the next week or so, they’ll toil feverishly to close deals — not with car buyers, but with members of the Senate in an effort get dealerships exempted from consumer protections
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: May 5, 2010 Americans for Financial Reform (AFR), including nation’s leading consumer groups, opposes the Shelby substitute (amendment #3826) to replace Title X of S. 3217, RAFSA, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, with a weak alternative VOTE NO, NO INDEPENDENCE, NO FUNDING
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Oppose the Brownback amendment to exempt auto dealers from the CFPB. Data from several nationwide cases against the major auto lenders settled by the National Consumer Law Center and co-counsel from 2003 to 2007 showed widespread racial disparities, unrelated to credit risk, in the markups added by