Restoration of the U.S.-Russia Polar Bear Conservation Fund Act of 2011

1) Support confirmation of Richard Cordray as CFPB director. (2) Support bank overdraft fee reform (HR 1261). (3) Support independent funding, authority and structure of CFPB and oppose all bills to weaken including HR 450,.S 18., S. 205, S 190, S. 238, S. 450 and any similar bills or budgetary line items or appropriations riders. (4) Support legislation to rein in payday lending and similar predatory loan practices, including HR 990 and S 172. Oppose any bills to create non-bank federal charter for paydayor similar lenders. Urge regulators to prevent banks from offering similar payday products. (5) Support legislation to hold credit bureaus accountable including proposals to provide free credit scores, such as S 471/HR 1002. (6) Work to protect consumer privacy notices from full repeal (HR 749, S 635). (6) Oppose efforts to add layers of unnecessary cost-benefit analysis or other so-called accountability constraints onto any federal financial agency, including REINS ACT (S 15) and any similar bills. (7) Support full funding and authority for all other financial regulators, including CFTC and SEC. (8) Urge CFPB and other regulators to enact strongest possible rules to protect homeowners and consumers from financial, foreclosure, mortgage servicing and other weakenings. (9) Oppose efforts in Congress to weaken any other consumer laws (10) Support efforts to eliminate forced arbitration in consumer contracts, such as Arbitration Fairness Act. (11) Support efforts to make large, interconnected financial institutions more accountable to taxpayers, depositors and investors, including support for Volcker rule, other too-big-to-fail and capital reforms. Oppose efforts to weaken that authority, including HR 797, (12) Support strong gainful employment rules for for-profit schools. (13) Support CFPB/DOE efforts to protect students from unfair private student loan practices. (14) Urge financial agencies and FTC to protect consumer privacy and to regulate Internet credit scoring models, data brokers and other practices involving the sale of consumer information or tracking of consumers. (15) Support efforts to establish anti-speculation Financial Transactions Tax (HR 880, S 410). (16) Oppose efforts to weaken investor protections under guise of implementing JOBS Act of 2012. (17) Support efforts to eliminate Deceptive Loan Checks (S 187).

Client expense: $22,182 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Federal Reserve System, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Natl Economic Council (NEC), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)

H.R. 509, A bill to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to provide that Act shall not apply to the gray wolf (canis lupus) H.R. 510, Idaho and Montana Wolf Management Act of 2011; A bill to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to prohibit treatment of gray wolves in Idaho and Montana as endangered species, and for other purposes. H.R. 990, Restoration of the U.S. - Russia Polar Bear Conservation Fund Act of 2011; A bill to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow the importation of polar bear trophies taken in sports hunts in Canada. H.R. 991, A bill to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow importation of polar bear trophies taken in sport hunts in Canada before the date and the polar bear was determined to be a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. S. 249, A bill to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to provide that Act shall not apply to the gray wolf (canis lupus). S. 321, Delisting Gray Wolves to Restore State Management Act of 2011; A bill to provide for the status of the Northern Rocky Mountain distinct population segment of the gray wolf, and for other purposes.

Client expense: $575,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Interior, Dept of (DOI), SENATE