Seventy-four law professors from across the country have sent Congressional leaders a joint letter urging enactment of a strong Consumer Financial Protection Agency that does not limit the efforts of state legislators and state attorneys general to protect their citizens.
Group Letters
[9.30.09]
[4.8.09]
Call To Action for Real Financial Reform
US PIRG: Letter urges financial reform legislation to be based on recommendations of COP's Special Report on Regulatory Reform
[3.17.09]
OpenTheGovernment.org, Coalition Partners, Join the Government Accountability Project in Urging Protection of Bailout Whistleblowers
OpenTheGovernment.org and several coalition partners signed on to a letter by the the Government Accountability Project (GAP) urging the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) to protect whistleblowers that expose waste, fraud and abuse during the IG audits.Read more »
[12.8.08]
More than 75 Organizations Join OpenTheGovernment.org and the National Taxpayers Union to Demand Bailout Transparency
78 good government advocates joined OpenTheGovernment.org and the National Taxpayers Union in sending a letter urging Congress to improve oversight and transparency of the financial bailout. Any credible solution to today's economic crisis must address one of the crisis' fundamental causes - corruption and other abuses of power sustained by secrecy. The signatories ask that Congress use its oversight authority to make the financial bailout more accountable to the American public, and its legislative authority to make it more transparent.
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