Coalition Efforts
Congress
- Senate should enhance consumer credit protections for servicemembers and their families
- 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
- Stop the Internet sell-out

