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MILITARY LENDING ACT PROTECTIONS LETTER
Representative Conor Lamb (D-PA) led a bipartisan letter with Representatives Walter Jones (R-NC) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) urging the agency to protect servicemembers and their families by upholding current Military Lending Act Protections. View the letter.
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(WASHINGTON, DC) – Representative Conor Lamb (D-PA) led a bipartisan letter with Representatives Walter Jones (R-NC) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) urging the agency to protect servicemembers and their families by upholding current Military Lending Act Protections. More than forty other Members of the House joined this effort.
(WASHINGTON, DC) -- Representative Conor Lamb (PA-18) issued the following statement after the passage of H.R. 6760:
"The tax cuts for families and small businesses should've been permanent from the start -- the fact that they weren't shows who the Republican tax bill was really designed to help. We should be helping people who actually need it, people working hard while their paychecks aren't increasing as much as they should," said Lamb.
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(WASHINGTON, DC) -- The following is a statement issued by Congressman Conor Lamb regarding his vote today against S. 2155 to roll back important consumer and financial protections put in place in response to the 2008 economic recession:
“Before the recession, if you deposited a dollar in your bank, they would keep approximately three cents on hand, and then loan out or invest the rest. After Dodd-Frank, many banks keep more like 6 or 7 cents on hand for each dollar someone deposits. We should not go backwards.
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Congressman Conor Lamb (PA-18) emphasized the importance of keeping Pennsylvania’s nuclear plants online to the Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry, and in a letter sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), earlier today. Congressman Lamb proposed working with Secretary Perry on a solution to address the pending closure of nuclear plants in the Commonwealth and highlighted the importance of the Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station, which is in danger of prematurely closing.