Congress

• Restricting forced arbitration protects investors
• Dairy Security Act will raise prices on milk and dairy products
• SAFE Lending protects consumers from risky practices
• Curbing dangerous Wall Street practices
• E-Verify to cause complications and challenges
• HR 5817 would threaten existing consumer privacy rights
• After 13 years Whistleblower Protection signed into law
• Priority legislation needed to avoid fiscal cliff
• The revised Raechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act
• Full-file utility credit reporting could hurt millions of consumers
• The most vulnerable to be harmed by automatic budget cuts in 2013
• Changes to S. 3468 give lobbyists more power
• In support of fair and affordable federal loan repayment options
• Protecting foreign transactions with the remittance rule
• Whistleblower protection is the foundation of consumer protection
• Supporting AB 2296
• Rental-to-own bill is a wolf in sheep’s clothing
• Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Strategic Plan
• JOBS Act Rulemaking: Title II
• The Fair Debt Collection Practices Clarification Act
• On the FSC proposal to eliminate budgetary independence of the CFPB
• The Know Before You Owe Act of 2012
• Strengthen JOBS Act Investor Protections
• SSA asked to withdraw its support of the Final Rule
• Senate should enhance consumer credit protections for servicemembers and their families
• Opposition to the Whistleblower Improvement Act of 2011
• Congress should close the unsafe rental car loophole
• Essential elements of effective postal reform
• Congress should pass law helping ease pain of private student loans
• Don’t handcuff the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
• FTC should swiftly conclude its review of children’s online privacy law
• Old exceptions to risk-based pricing rule must be removed before Dodd-Frank can work
• Amendment would eliminate protections for students in college career education programs
• Agencies need adequate funds to fufill financial reform legislation
• Congress should enact legislation to ban tax strategy patents
• SEC’s proposed rule would expose personal financial information of homeowners
• Congress should investigate Microsoft’s decision to undermine consumer privacy
• Congress should enact auto safety bill without weakening amendments
• Senate must act to give states extensions on federal Medicaid match
• Protect consumers from cell phone “bill shock”
• Privacy legislation must be grounded in Fair Information Practices
• Data collection provisions in health law ensure equal access and care
• No two-tier campaign finance laws: Consumer groups oppose DISCLOSE Act
• Online privacy bill needs to be fortified with FIPs and other protections
• Let consumers compare health insurance rates fairly
• Protection means choice: Give the CFPB and SEC authority over forced arbitration
• Give the FTC the tools it needs to protect consumers
• Consumers deserve free access to credit scores with credit reports
• Financial reform must include a strong, independent consumer regulator
• Debt collectors should not use paid medical debt to determine credit worth
• Restore funding Congressional Office of Technology Assessment
• Keep consumer protection agency independent
• Financial protection agency could stop next recession
• Congress should reign in reckless financial markets gambling
• Foreclosure crisis can be stopped with bold, aggressive action
• Improving HAMP will stem foreclosures
• Health care bill should adopt Medicaid payment parity
• Data collection and tracking via student loans is open-ended and overbroad
• SEC should investigate, have power to prohibit investment arbitration clauses
• Curb unfair overdraft protection practices
• Congress should ban tax patents
• Federal law should be a floor, not a ceiling, for consumer protection
• Keep community investment in consumer agency legislation
• Student loans must be regulated by the CFPA
• Protect car buyers under consumer watchdog agency
• Strike preemptive language in privacy and security bill
• Health reform should provide quick and efficient coverage for Medicaid enrollees
• Financial reform coalition tackles big issues
• Health reform legislation must lower costs for working families
• State regulators must be allowed to protect borrowers
• Loan modifications available for all mortgages, not just subprime
• Wolf in sheep’s clothing: payday lending bill harms consumers
• 36% ‘FAIR’ rate cap bill protects consumers from lending abuses
• A call to action for financial services reform
• Court-supervised loan modifications crucial to stopping foreclosures
• HIT cannot be successful without strong privacy protections
• Groups urge co-sponsorship of ‘Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights’
• Bailout must include foreclosure prevention provisions
• College affordability is a critical part of economic recovery
• Consumer coalition lists goals for Obama’s FTC
• Take a ride on the ‘Road to Economic Recovery’
• Video explains significance of the Community Reinvestment Act
• Key deficiencies in RESPA weaken consumer protections
• Attacks on Community Reinvestment Act are misguided
• Support court-supervised loan modifications in bailout
• Protect credit cardholders in bailout legislation
• Main Street principles should guide Wall Street rescue
• Congress shouldn’t forget the Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights
• DOJ’s opposition to Nursing Home Arbitration Act unfounded
• Consumer Action testifies on universal postal service
• Bill offers key protections for homeowners facing foreclosure
• Arbitration nursing home bill protects consumers and their loved ones
• H.R. 2885 would undermine key consumer credit protections
• Congress should enact the strongest product safety bill possible
• H.R. 5679 effectively protects homeowners from foreclosure
• E-Prescribing legislation must include privacy protection
• Protecting whistleblowers through the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Groups support Menendez credit card bill
• Saving homes through Chapter 13 bankruptcy
• Postal reform: Comparing the House and Senate Versions