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Public Citizen More than 125,500 tell Chamber of Commerce: Stop protecting rapists!
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That’s right, more than 125,500 signed our petition to demand an end to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s lobbying against Sen. Franken’s (D-Minn.) amendment to bar defense contractors like Halliburton/KBR from forcing employees with sexual assault and discrimination claims into arbitration.
Public Citizen Breaking news! It's likely that the Senate vote on the Sanders #singlepayer amendment will be TODAY. Tell your senators to vote YES on #healthcare for all:
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Our nation is facing a health care crisis. Single-payer health care is the only reform that will provide universal coverage and contain skyrocketing costs. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) has introduced Senate ...
Public Citizen Attention New Yorkers! Protest at noon tomorrow at Goldman Sachs' new headquarters. Details @ http://bit.ly/4WTpWf #p2 #nobigbanks
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The banksters on Wall Street are back to making record profits and handing out multi-billion dollar bonuses. Meanwhile, back in the real economy, unemployment has risen above 10 percent, millions have ...
Public Citizen WE DID IT! Victory in the House for Wall Street reform! The Consumer Financial Protection Agency made it through, now onward to the Senate and fighting to strengthen the bill!
Public Citizen | Press Room - With Passage of Reform Bill, House Takes Key Step in Reregulating Fina
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With passage of the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives today takes an important first step in reregulating the financial sector.
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Lieberman, Kerry and Graham just sold out the public interest to the oil, nuke and coal industries.
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Christmas has come early for the Trio of Polluters (oil, coal and nukes): The tripartisan committee of Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT), John Kerry (D-MA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) today released their “framework” ...
Public Citizen Sign the petition at http://bit.ly/6CrdLr & show your support for a Consumer Financial Protection Agency! #nobigbanks #p2 #wallst
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Toasters, toys, Tylenol, title loans: one of these things is not like the others. We have government agencies in charge of regulating many consumer products, but not nearly enough attention is given to financial products. ...
Public Citizen The op-ed below by Public Citizen's president, Robert Weissman, ran in The Hill today:
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Americans have a right to expect Wall Street to pay. Americans have a right to expect Wall Street to pay.
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From the Huffington Post: "Financial services members in general receive a lot from the sector
they regulate," said Taylor Lincoln, a researcher for Public Citizen,
which on Tuesday published a report drawing attention to the money flow. "These members receive an extra lot."
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Members of the House Financial Services Committee have received, on average, $138,422 in campaign contributions from the financial services industry so far this year -- more than twice what non-committee members have taken in. ...
Public Citizen Urge your members of Congress to stand up to the Wall Street Democrats! Rep. Minnick (D-Idaho) is proposing an amendment to strike the Consumer Financial Protection Agency from financial reform, and Rep. Bean (D-Ill.) is trying to strip states of their right to impose tougher restrictions on predatory banking practices.
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This week the stakes are high. As the House prepares to vote on the financial reform we’ve been fighting for all year, Wall Street and the big banks are making every attempt to kill it.
Public Citizen Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen's Energy Program talks about what's at stake in Copenhagen on our new climate and energy blog. http://publiccitizenenergy.org/
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The United Nations conference on climate change kicks off today in Copenhagen, Denmark where Obama will make an appearance, committing the U.S. to cutting our greenhouse gas emissions 17% below 2005 levels by 2020. ...
Public Citizen Next week will be HUGE for action to push for common sense reforms to rein in abuses on Wall Street. Urge your reps to vote for the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 (H.R. 4173).
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The House of Representatives will vote this week on a major overhaul of the financial industry to ensure more accountability, stability and protections for consumers. The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 (H.R. ...
Public Citizen Yesterday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) introduced Senate Amendment 2837, which would transform the Senate version of the health care reform package into a single-payer, healthcare-for-all plan. Go to the page below today to tell your senators: Vote "YES!" on S.A. 2837. "YES!" to single-payer.
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Our nation is facing a health care crisis. Single-payer health care is the only reform that will provide universal coverage and contain skyrocketing costs. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) has introduced Senate ...
