We have lots on our plate This Week in The Halls of Power. From tackling legislation designed to undermine public 
protections and issuing a new report on medical malpractice, to holding a press conference on the Hill where we will call for swift action to remedy the broken Federal Election Commission, Public Citizen staffers are putting on their best public interest game faces.
protections and issuing a new report on medical malpractice, to holding a press conference on the Hill where we will call for swift action to remedy the broken Federal Election Commission, Public Citizen staffers are putting on their best public interest game faces.Tomorrow, Public Citizen attorney Scott Nelson will go before the U.S. Supreme Court to argue that the Credit Repair Organizations Act (CROA) protects consumers from having to give up their right to sue when they seek help rebuilding their credit rating. The CROA broadly prohibits credit repair organizations – businesses that take money in exchange for improving consumers’ credit – from engaging in fraudulent or deceptive conduct. It also prohibits them from requiring consumers to sign away their right to go to court, Nelson will argue.
On Wednesday, Congress will vote on the Bush-negotiated, NAFTA-style trade deals with Korea, Colombia and Panama. Even the official government studies say that these deals will increase our trade deficit. Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Group says,
Bigger trade deficits mean job loss.
