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Allied Progress Launches Investigation into Ed Department’s Decision to Cut Ties with Consumer Bureau
Trump Administration brings assault on consumer protections to student loan borrowers.
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Group Launches Investigation into Trump DOJ’s Giveaway to Financial Scammers
Allied Progress launches investigation into Trump administration decision to end the successful Obama-era program Operation Choke Point.
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Hensarling Lies, Says CFPB Makes It Harder to Buy Cars But CFPB Protects Car Buyers
Hensarling should get his facts straight. The CFPB has protected car buyers, including members of the media.
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Group Will Livestream, Encourage Action During House Debate of Wall Street Giveaway Bill
Allied Progress will give viewers opportunity to watch House debate on Financial CHOICE Act and contact their representatives in real time.
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What’s Hensarling Hiding? Group Launches Campaign Seeking Whistleblowers as Congress Considers His “Wrong CHOICE Act”
Following Hensarling’s letter asking federal agencies to deny public records requests, group launches whistleblower campaign.
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Consumerist: As Congress Preps To Scrap Prepaid Card Protections, Lawsuit Seeks Release Of Emails Between Lawmakers & Lobbyists
The Freedom Of Information Act lawsuit filed today by advocacy group Allied Progress asks a federal court in D.C. to compel the CFPB to turn over communications involving the pending prepaid card rules.
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American Banker: Fight Over CFPB Prepaid Rule Coming to a Head
The fight over a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule adding new restrictions to prepaid cards is intensifying as some Republicans hope to overturn it before a looming deadline for Congress to act expires.
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Courthouse News Services: Consumer Advocates Take Records Hunt to Court
Fighting a Republican effort to loosen regulations that protect consumers from prepaid card abuses, an advocacy group brought its open-records battle to a federal judge.
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PYMNTS.com: CFPB Advocacy Group Sues US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Allied Progress files suit against the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau due to its inability to produce papers overturning Obama regulation.
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Law360: Group Seeks CFPB’s Prepaid-Rule Exchanges With GOP Foes
A liberal activist group sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday to hasten the agency’s turnover of correspondence with Republican senators who are seeking to eliminate credit card-like protections for prepaid card users.