Elections do matter, part the 23,427th. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is going to be working hand in hand with their lackey imperialist running dogs in Congress, also known as the Republican Party, and their goal is clear – destroy all consumer protections as soon as feasible.
Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue has declared war on the American consumer, telling Congress to “starve to death financially” the consumer financial protection bureau. What will really send a chill down your spine: he “added that the Chamber would be “deeply involved in the regulatory rulemaking” moving forward.”
In an address before 200 business executives in Minneapolis yesterday, Donohue pledged to “starve to death financially” new regulatory agencies:
He decried a “regulatory tsunami” that is “keeping your children out of work, that’s putting your father out of work.” He called for the repeal of health care reform, said the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation vastly overreached, and described the consumer protection agency created by that legislation as, “the most intrusive you’ve ever seen anywhere.” He pledged to work with Congress to “starve to death financially” new regulatory agencies and rule-writing efforts.
This is a pretty clear declaration that the Chamber will push Republicans to complete their drive to defund the Consumer Protection Bureau, denying it the money it needs to get off the ground. (In July, the Bureau will begin to receive an independent funding stream from the Federal Reserve.) Donohue also seems to want to deny funding to the other federal regulatory agencies involved in implementing Dodd-Frank.
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