The Financial Consumers’ Association Over the last ten years the financial industry has spent, through lobbying expenditures and campaign contributions, over $5 billion pushing for and winning deregulation. This deregulation has come at a huge cost to taxpayers and consumers who currently have little voice in the regulatory debate. To protect consumers and to forestall … Read more
Leading National Consumer Groups (Consumer Union , National Consumer Law Center, Public Citizen, Consumer Federation of America, National Association of Consumer Advocates, USPIRG) support Financial Consumers’ Association (FCA) Letter follows: December 21, 2009 Senator Chris Dodd Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs 448 Russell Building Washington, DC 20510 Congressman Barney Frank Committee on Financial … Read more
Join Morgan Spurlock and Ralph Nader at Busboys and Poets Friday, March 18 at 7:00pm For a special screening of POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold from acclaimed filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. Admission: $20 to benefit the Center for Study of Responsive Law Admission: $20 to benefit the Center for Study of Responsive Law … Read more
State Government Contract Assessment
A survey of the online availability of state government contracting information for all 50 states and the District of Columbia
Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, and Wyoming top a list of worst offenders in full online disclosure of state contracting information, according to a survey issued today by Ralph Nader and the Center for the Study of Responsive Law (CSRL).
April 9, 2007 Center for the Study of Responsive Law (CSRL) Contact: Adam Tapley Tel. (202) 387-8070 Fax (202) 234-5176 Average Taxpayers and Small Businesses Owed Billions from Illegal Tax The Refund and How to Get It Billions of dollars of the largest refund in U.S. history have so far gone unclaimed by taxpayers … Read more