Aug 3, 2020 | Congressional Legislation, News
Senate Passes Bill to Prevent Garnishment of Relief Payments by Private Debt Collectors Recently, the U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan bill to protect recovery payments supplied by the CARES Act from being garnished by private debt collectors. The bill was introduced...
Jul 15, 2020 | Congressional Legislation, News
House Financial Services Committee Convenes Hearing on Protecting Workers’ Pay During Pandemic Last week, the House Financial Services Committee (HFSC) held a hearing titled “Paycheck Security: Economic Perspectives on Alternative Approaches to Protecting Workers’...
Jul 6, 2020 | Congressional Legislation, News
Senate Indian Affairs Committee Hears Testimony on Seven Native American Bills Senator John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, held a hearing last week to receive testimony on seven bills meant to protect Native American communities....
Jul 3, 2020 | Congressional Legislation, News
Senate Banking Committee Holds Hearing on Digital Banking Earlier this week, the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs conducted a remote hearing to examine “The Digitization of Money and Payments.” This comes as the COVID-19 pandemic has given...
Jun 19, 2020 | Congressional Legislation, News
Senator Brown Proposes Privacy Bill to Protect Consumer Data Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) earlier this week released the Data Accountability and Transparency Act of 2020, a draft privacy bill that would allow Americans to hold the federal government, tech companies,...
Jun 3, 2020 | Congressional Legislation, News
Democratic Senators Press Treasury on Tribal Concerns on Coronavirus Relief Funds Last week, Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.), vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, was joined by 11 of his Democratic colleagues in the Senate in sending a letter to...