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CFPB's Kraninger Provides Opaque Statement To Committee; Questions and Second Panel Will Be Critical

Thursday, March 7, 2019
By | Ed Mierzwinski
Senior Director, Federal Consumer Program

Today, new CFPB director Kathy Kraninger testifies to Congress for the first time. The House Financial Services Committee will need to drill down with tough questions. Why? Kraninger's written pre-filed statement reads like an answer to a warped question from old television's Sergeant Joe Friday: "Just the irrelevant, off-point facts, ma'am." The committee should also look to the cogent testimony of consumer, civil rights, military family and student advocates also appearing today.

Drinking to your health? Weed killer Roundup lurks in many beers and wines

Friday, March 1, 2019
By | Kara Cook-Schultz
Director, Campaign to Ban RoundUp

New report finds glyphosate in popular alcoholic beverages

Thinking about reducing plastic waste in your life? Here's how one U.S. PIRG member cut her waste in half

Wednesday, January 16, 2019
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 "It's freeing to not be constantly wanting more and better stuff."

Mulvaney Lobs One Last Softball To Industry Opponents of CFPB

Monday, December 31, 2018
By | Ed Mierzwinski
Senior Director, Federal Consumer Program

As the year 2018 came to an end, U.S. PIRG, Americans for Financial Reform and AFR members filed the last in in a seemingly interminable series of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Requests for Information. Although there was no clear intent to this "Data Collection" RFI, we, and allied academic scholars who filed a separate comment, both inferred it as another opportunity for industry opponents of the CFPB to attack the Bureau's consumer protection mission -- this time by challenging its collection and use of data to evaluate and respond to financial marketplace problems that harm consumers. 

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