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CWA: Senate Confirms Mel Watt to head FHFA
Today?s confirmation by the U.S. Senate of Rep. Mel Watt as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency is long overdue. Watt will be a strong advocate for individual homeowners and communities and will take on predatory lending and other financial practices that harm consumers.
December 10, 1948
Eleanor Roosevelt proclaims international Human Rights Day speaking mostly to the rest of the world, emerging from war, and facing human rights issues on every continent. At that moment, the US leads the world?s democracies by almost every measure. Now 65 years later, the blocks to our democracy are as glaring in the US as anywhere else.
CWA Commends Leader Reid and Democratic Senators Who Voted to End Gridlock in U.S. Senate
Today, Senate Majority Leader Reid and nearly every Democratic Senator have acted to end Senate gridlock and obstruction on Presidential nominations.
CWA: The President's Nominees Deserve an Up-or-Down Vote
For the fourth time in just a few weeks, Senate Republicans have set gridlock above good governance by blocking a vote on the nomination of Robert Wilkins to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit.
Bipartisan "Press One for America" Bill Unveiled That Lets Consumers Choose U.S. Based Call Centers
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle today joined together in support of legislation that would end tax payer subsidies for corporations that send U.S. call center jobs offshore, as CWA released a report outlining massive data security issues at overseas call centers that leave Americans? personal information at risk.