Crapo Archives - Americans for Financial Reform

AFR in the news: Dems Team Up with GOP to Weaken Bank Rules (Democracy Now!)

AFR’s senior policy analyst Alexis Goldstein joined Democracy Now! to discuss the dangers of S. 2155, a bill the Senate is considering that would encourage discrimination in lending, roll back rules on large U.S. and giant foreign banks, and make further bailouts more likely.

AFR Statement: Bipartisan Senate Bill Rewards Banks While Leaving out Consumers

A bipartisan majority of lawmakers on the Senate Banking Committee last week rejected a series of public interest amendments in order to advance a bill full of gifts to banks.

Letter To Congress: Reject S 2155 — A Gift to Bank Lobbyists

AFR sent a letter urging Senators to reject S 2155, which contains some two dozen deregulatory gifts to bank lobbyists and only minimal consumer benefits AFR Opposition Letter to S 2155