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Consumer Debt

Monday, September 9, 2019
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Monday, September 9, 2019
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Wednesday, September 4, 2019
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Legislation

  • H.R.____, “ the Consumers First Act” [DRAFT]

 

Witness List

Panel I

Panel II

  • Mr. Hilary Shelton, Director & Senior Vice President for Advocacy and Policy, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
     
  • Ms. Linda Jun, Senior Policy Counsel, Americans for Financial Reform
     
  • Ms. Jennifer Davis, Government Relations Deputy Director, National Military Family Association
     
  • Mr. Seth Frotman, Executive Director, Student Borrower Protection Center
     
  • Mr. Scott Weltman, Managing Shareholder, Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., L.P.A.

Witness List

  • Joe Sanders, Student Loan Ombudsman and Supervising Attorney, Consumer Fraud Bureau, Illinois Attorney General's Office
     
  • Nicholas Smyth, Assistant Director for Consumer Financial Protection, Senior Deputy Attorney General, Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General
     
  • Arwen Thoman, Director, Student Loan Assistance Unit, and Investigations Supervisor, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office
     
  • Joanna Darcus, Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation Racial Justice Fellow, National Consumer Law Center
     
  • Scott Buchanan, Executive Director, Student Loan Servicing Alliance

Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.)

Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-N.Y.)

Rep. Ben Cline (R.-Va.)

Rep. Antonio Delgado (D-N.Y.)

Panel Two: 

Ms. Hollister K. Petraeus 

Former Assistant Director, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Office of Servicemember Affairs

Mr. Robert Keach on behalf of The American Bankruptcy Institute

Mr. Ed Boltz Esq. on behalf of The National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys

Mr. John Rao on behalf of The National Consumer Law Center

Ms. Dalié Jiménez 

Professor, University of California Irvine School of Law

The Honorable Thomas Small on behalf of The National Bankruptcy Conference

 

Tuesday, September 3, 2019
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Friday, August 30, 2019
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