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President Obama spent this morning talking about credit card reform and taking questions from the audience at Rio Rancho High School. Watching along, we had a conversation with some consumer advocates. Click below to read the transcript.
Obama has been urging passage of a Senate bill known as the Credit Card Accountability and Disclosure Act (or CARD Act), which could come to a vote as early as Thursday. Panelists for our live blog included:
Linda Sherry, the director of national priorities in the Washington, D.C. office of Consumer Action, a non-profit, membership-based organization based in San Francisco. She is an expert on credit card pricing and industry practices who coordinates Consumer Action’s annual pricing survey of retail credit cards.
Dianna Dorn Jones of the United South Broadway Corporation, a non-profit Community Development Corporation in Albuquerque. USBC’s mortgage services program is dedicated to eliminating barriers to credit, capital, and homeownership for low-income New Mexicans.
Rebecca Branch of the Consumer Protection Division of the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office, which works to educate consumers about credit card fraud, credit reporting and credit repair scams. The Consumer Protection Division monitors business practices, works to help consumers resolve complaints, investigates unfair trade practices, promotes legislation and files civil lawsuits to challenge practices that violate New Mexico or federal law.
Muchas, muchas gracias to KNME-TV for streaming the President’s town hall live and allowing us to embed it in the live blog. If you missed it before you can watch it here.
