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🚫 Bigger trucks = more crashes, more damage, more taxpayer costs. This The Hill op-ed from the Taxpayers Protection Alliance Taxpayers Protection Alliance and the National Consumers League National Consumers League explains why Congress must say NO to heavier, longer trucks. thehill.com/opinion/techno…



If your congressional office is not on this list, it should be. Rosa DeLauro's bill, H.R. 3335 bans hazardous #ChildLabor in toxic U.S. #tobacco fields. The work is not fit for minors, let alone 12-year-olds, which U.S. law allows. Labor Caucus Rosa DeLauro



📢 Today, Financial Services GOP is holding yet another hearing to attack the Dodd-Frank Act—and with it, the #CFPB. They’re considering dozens of bills that would gut the only agency solely focused on protecting people from scams, rip-offs, and discrimination. #HandsOffCFPB

💥 37 bad bills. One clear goal: weaken the #CFPB and undo the consumer protections put in place after the 2008 financial crisis. Today’s Financial Services GOP hearing is yet another attack on Dodd-Frank—and on the millions of people the CFPB is meant to protect. #HandsOffCFPB

OtsukaUS Merck PhRMA Yanira Cruz Nat. Cmte. to Preserve Social Security & Medicare "Only about 10% of people that have obesity have ever seen a doctor. Think about that. Think about the amount of untreated disease that is affecting the whole health process", reveals Nancy Glick, Director of Food and Nutrition Policy at National Consumers League.


In the United States, you must be 21 to buy cigarettes. So why is it that 12-year-olds can work on tobacco farms? Senator Dick Durbin and I introduced a bill to make this illegal. Our kids deserve a childhood free from hard labor and the dangers of nicotine poisoning.




On September 17th, The GW Competition & Innovation Lab joins with The National Consumers League National Consumers League for the Artificial Intelligence and Consumer Fraud conference. Register to attend here: linkedin.com/events/7351615…




The first presentation featured Nancy Glick, Director of Food and Nutrition Policy at National Consumers League. We then heard from Shahzia Lakhani, Senior Director of Clinical Education at American Kidney Fund, and Dr. Max Hyams, Medical Science Liaison at Otsuka Pharmaceutical.
