• RT @DanielPFlatley: NEW: A bipartisan group of senators is urging the Fed to buy long-term debt from states and localities to ease the effe…
    Senate Banking Democrats Fri 15 May 2020 20:00
  • RT @SenSherrodBrown: Renters need help NOW. I'm introducing legislation that will help renters pay their rent and utility bills. RT t…
    Senate Banking Democrats Thu 14 May 2020 23:29
  • NEW: @SenSherrodBrown, @SenTinaSmith, and @SenatorMenendez call for clarity on why small businesses may not have received full PPP loan amounts Link
    Senate Banking Democrats Wed 13 May 2020 20:58

    Three Senate Democrats want Trump administration officials to keep a closer eye on the banks handing out aid to small businesses after some companies said they had received less than they expected, without explanation.

  • ICYMI: @MarkWarner to @USOCC Chairman Otting on the #CommunityReinvestmentAct: "If we're looking at #CRA reform, we've got to do that in concert with the effected communities. A lot of low and moderate income communities have raised concerns about your proposal." https://t.co/pQtd3FjDZB
    Senate Banking Democrats Wed 13 May 2020 15:03
  • RT @RealBankReform: Ranking Member @SenSherrodBrown: "low & moderate-income families & communities of color are disproportionately bearing…
    Senate Banking Democrats Tue 12 May 2020 22:22
  • .@SenBrianSchatz on the proposed rollback of the #CommunityReinvestmentAct: "This is the wrong idea at the wrong time. Banks, housing advocates - no one I've talked to thinks this is a good idea." #CRA https://t.co/QIDKrrryt2
    Senate Banking Democrats Tue 12 May 2020 19:12
  • RT @SenateDems: WATCH: @SenatorMenendez urges top financial regulators to ensure that minority-owned small businesses and underserved commu…
    Senate Banking Democrats Tue 12 May 2020 16:42
  • Ranking Member @SenSherrodBrown to the @USOCC: Why are you insisting on rolling back the #CommunityReinvestmentAct at the precise moment when underserved communities most need access to these loans and services? #CRA https://t.co/7FJBKrA0wF
    Senate Banking Democrats Tue 12 May 2020 16:37
  • Ranking Member @SenSherrodBrown's message to financial watchdogs: "You have been too eager to provide what you call 'regulatory relief' – and what the rest of us call favors for Wall Street and the biggest corporations." https://t.co/rvj8fNXfoo
    Senate Banking Democrats Tue 12 May 2020 15:12
  • RT @SenSherrodBrown: Our financial watchdogs have two basic jobs: ??keeping our financial system safe and strong ??making sure the banking…
    Senate Banking Democrats Tue 12 May 2020 15:12
  • Director Kraninger stacked a CFPB task force with hired guns for payday lenders, Wall Street banks, and other corporate interests. The CFPB needs to get back to its core mission of protecting consumers. Link
    Senate Banking Democrats Mon 11 May 2020 21:26

    A Consumer Financial Protection Bureau task force that has been criticized in the past for its pro-business leanings stands to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars to offer advice on how to “harmonize and modernize” federal laws aimed at protecting the public.

    The task force members’ prorated salaries are near the top of the pay scale for the CFPB, an agency frequently criticized by Republican lawmakers for paying its staff more generously than most other federal agencies.

    “This looks like a plan to draft a far-right wing agenda for gutting 40- to 50-year-old consumer protections, on the public’s dime,” said Diane Thompson, a former top CFPB official and now an attorney at the National Consumer Law Center.

    The Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial Law consists of five outside conservative academics and industry lawyers who have represented payday lenders in CFPB enforcement actions and consumer litigation, as well as banks and other companies in regulatory...

  • Ranking Member @SenSherrodBrown, @RepMaxineWaters, @RepDennyHeck Introduce Legislation to Help Renters with $100 Billion in Emergency Rental Assistance Link
    Senate Banking Democrats Fri 08 May 2020 22:23
    Bills Would Authorize $100 Billion For An Emergency Rental Assistance Program To Help Renters Stay Housed During and After The Pandemic Lawmakers Call for Legislation To Be Included In The Next Coronavirus Relief Package
  • RT @SenWarren: Brian Miller's work as one of Trump's impeachment attorneys should have disqualified him from a nomination to oversee the Pr…
    Senate Banking Democrats Thu 07 May 2020 22:32
  • RT @SenSherrodBrown: We need to hold the Trump Administration accountable to ensure the funding we passed in the CARES Act actually goes to…
    Senate Banking Democrats Tue 05 May 2020 18:55
  • RT @SenSherrodBrown: My bill, the Emergency Rental Assistance and Rental Market Stabilization Act, keeps families and individuals stably ho…
    Senate Banking Democrats Mon 04 May 2020 17:29
  • RT @SenSherrodBrown: We cannot leave behind the millions of Americans who could be facing eviction without #RentReliefNow. I’m introducin…
    Senate Banking Democrats Mon 04 May 2020 17:29
  • RT @SenSherrodBrown: Everyone deserves a safe place to live. We must do everything in our power to make sure this public health crisis do…
    Senate Banking Democrats Wed 15 Apr 2020 17:45
  • RT @EnterpriseNow: A5: We need more effective housing policies that adopt more systemic approaches to addressing the interdependence betwee…
    Senate Banking Democrats Wed 15 Apr 2020 17:35
  • RT @MyHomeMatters: A1: This crisis is illuminating for the entire nation the deep inequities that persist in housing, exposes why the inter…
    Senate Banking Democrats Wed 15 Apr 2020 17:35
  • RT @PeggyBaileyDC: A1: In recent years, we talk a lot about the link between housing, neighborhoods, and health. Now we can see what our la…
    Senate Banking Democrats Wed 15 Apr 2020 17:35
  • RT @PeggyBaileyDC: A1: #COVID19 has brought to light the impact racism and racial segregation that allows decision makers to dis/under inve…
    Senate Banking Democrats Wed 15 Apr 2020 17:35
  • Mnuchin Knew Two Weeks Ago That Financial Predators Could Grab Emergency Coronavirus Checks Link
    Senate Banking Democrats Wed 15 Apr 2020 15:45
  • The 23 state attorneys general are right: the @CFPB “should get back to doing its job” and protecting consumers, not exploiting this crisis to gut credit reporting protections and fair lending laws. Link
    Senate Banking Democrats Tue 14 Apr 2020 23:50
    Millions of Americans are slated to get one-time government stimulus payments this week.One gap in recent legislation could mean that people with outstanding debts may never see the money.Several state Attorneys General and U.S. Senators are calling for the Treasury Department to reverse that policy.
  • RT @haggertynDC: .@SenSherrodBrown joined me for podcast on how he would protect consumers during the coronavirus pandemic...https://t.co/m…
    Senate Banking Democrats Tue 14 Apr 2020 13:49
  • RT @natfairhouse: During the unprecedented public health crisis and economic downturn #COVID19 has created, access to housing has never bee…
    Senate Banking Democrats Tue 14 Apr 2020 00:14
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