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Republican support for consumer protection?
If the 99 percent wants a list of Senators who support Wall Street over Main Street, Sen. Richard Shelby conveniently collected the names last spring. He organized a letter signed by 44 colleagues...
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Big Pharma & medical device industry are anxious to ride the deregulatory wave
Bad news. The dangerous anti-regulation campaign sweeping Congress has hit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – the agency tasked with ensuring the safety of our drugs and medical devices. Over the...
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New Paper by the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards Exposes the Dangers of the...
The Big Business attack on public safeguards will get a little more intense in the coming days, when the House votes on a couple of particularly treacherous deregulatory bills aimed at dumping a barrel...
View ArticlePost-Cordray vote reminder: Obama can make a recess appointment
As predicted, the Senate GOP today blocked the confirmation of Richard Cordray to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Republican lawmakers just don’t seem to understand how angry people...
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FDA, Congress should fill the wide gap of responsibility over generic drug...
A woman walks into a pharmacy to fill a prescription. She is offered either premium-priced drug Brand Name-X or Generic Drug Y, which offers the same treatment at a significantly lower price. She...
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Vote Count for Bill Against Patient Rights
Last week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5, an extreme bill that would severely undermine patients’ rights. The vote was 223-181. We are extremely disappointed. Christine Hines blogged last...
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An Anniversary You’re Forced to Remember
Friday marks the anniversary of a Supreme Court decision that you are probably unaware of, but will be forced to live with if you end up in a dispute with a corporation. One year after a U.S. Supreme...
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Les Nouvelles de Bruxelles : The Changing Politics of the Knowledge Economy
The politics of the global knowledge economy are shifting: from mercantilism to co-operation, from closed commercial regimes toward open source. Last week, the European Parliament Committee on...
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Let Wall Street regulate itself? No way!
Last week, a bipartisan group of senators were hastily pushing a bill that could significantly weaken efforts to keep Wall Street’s greed from causing another financial crash. Dubbed the Independent...
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Bear Stearns suit a praiseworthy first step for Schneiderman task force
First steps are finally being taken to hold one of the Big Banks accountable for its role in causing the economic collapse. A joint federal and state task force, led by New York Attorney General Eric...
View ArticleMajority of Top Hospitals Ban Infant Formula Marketing
I love being the bearer of good news. Eliminating infant formula marketing in hospitals is decidedly a best practice employed by the vast majority of U.S. News and World Report’s top-ranked hospitals....
View ArticleConsumers need protection from deceptive native ads, ‘sponsored’ content
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is hosting a workshop today on “native advertising” – the practice of blending ads with news and other content in such a way to make it difficult to distinguish paid...
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House Climate Hearing a Farce; GOP Should Support Clean Air, Cost Savings for...
Statement of David Arkush, Managing Director of Public Citizen’s Climate Program Today, the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology holds a hearing to criticize the U.S. Environmental...
View ArticleBig banks have license to steal, and you can help stop it
By Robert Weissman The big banks want an effective license to steal. And they are counting on you to give it to them. You would never knowingly agree to any such thing, right? But did you ever wonder...
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