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Questions Congress Should Ask CFPB Director Next Week

Thursday, October 10, 2019
By | Ed Mierzwinski
Senior Director, Federal Consumer Program

CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger will deliver the statutory “Semi-Annual Report of the CFPB” to the House Financial Services (10/16) and Senate Banking (10/17) Committees next week. Here are some helpful questions for committee members to ask.

History repeats: Congress takes on tobacco industry, again

Wednesday, September 25, 2019
By | Matt Wellington
Director, Campaign to Stop the Overuse Of Antibiotics

Today, the Oversight Subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee -- the very Committee that dramatically and finally exposed tobacco companies’ ploys to deceive smokers back in 1994 -- is taking on the tobacco threat 2.0 with a hearing about the public health risks of e-cigarettes. Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) submitted U.S. PIRG's blog on the youth vaping epidemic into the official record of the hearing. 

Data Privacy Can't Be Assured Without States and Consumers

Monday, September 23, 2019
By | Ed Mierzwinski
Senior Director, Federal Consumer Program

Recently, the CEOs who make up the Business Roundtable renewed their demand that Congress pass a federal privacy “standard” that preempts stronger state laws. That's the wrong way to go because Congress only does a good job protecting consumers either after a disaster (e.g., Wall Street's collapse of the economy) or after states lead the way. We shouldn't have to wait for a disaster. Learn more.

Testimony in Favor of 100 Percent Renewable Energy and Electric Vehicle Fleets

Tuesday, July 23, 2019
By | Matt Casale
Director, 21st Century Transportation Campaign

Our testimony, delivered to the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy on July 23, 2019, in support of "An act to transition Massachusetts to 100 percent renewable energy" (HB2836 and SB1958) and "An act to promote zero-emission vehicle fleets by 2035" (HB2872 and SB1929). 

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