CFED Comment Letters

Aspiring to ensure that policies and programs provide all Americans with the opportunity to participate and succeed in the national economy, CFED promotes effective and efficient asset-building, entrepreneurship and education policies to promote financial security and opportunity.

CFED's comment letters:

CFED Recommends Improvements to Community Reinvestment Act Regulations (September 2010)

CFED recommends improvements to USDA’s Rural Microenterprise Assistance Program (July 2010)

CFED expresses its support of Lifelong Learning Accounts legislation (July 2010)

CFED joins letter to Fiscal Commission (June 2010)

CFED urges reform of asset limits for the Food Distribution Program for Indian Reservations (June 2010)

CFED recommends assets indicators be included in the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure (June 2010)

CFED asks Congress to preserve Title XII in Financial Reform (June 2010)

CFED joins coalition urging co-ownership of savings bonds (May 2010)

CFED urges President Obama to appoint a Federal Housing Finance Agency Director (April 2010)

CFED submits comments to the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee calling for improvements in financing for manufactured housing (April 2010)

Fourteen U.S. Senators call for funding of the Beginning Farmer and Rancher IDA program (March 2010)

28 members of Congress sign letter calling for $26 million for SBA Microloan funding(March 2010)

CFED Innovator-in-Residence, Stacey Epperson, testifies at the Senate Energy Committee hearing in support of legislation replacing substandard mobile homes with ENERGY STAR manufactured homes (March 2010)

CFED supports asset investment in President Obama's FY 2011 budget request (February 2010)

CFED supports Federal Reserve’s efforts to protect consumers (December 2009)

CFED supports the replacement of substandard mobile homes with ENERGY STAR units in the Jobs Bill (December 2009)

CFED comments on the Department of Health and Human Services' priorities (November 2009)

CFED comments on proposed rule for FHLBank Directors' Compensation and Expenses (November 2009)

CFED comments on proposed rule for Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program (November 2009)

CFED arranges for an entrepreneur to testify for Small Business Comittee (October 2009)

CFED comments on Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's "duty to serve" underserved markets (September 2009)

CFED requests HHS prioritize Assets for Independence Reauthorization (September 2009)

CFED encourages continued support of IDA and MED programs through the Office of Refugee Resettlement (July 2009)

CFED testifies in support of Microloan Program at House Small Business Committee Hearing (July 2009)

CFED comments on proposed rules for CDFI access to FHLBanks (July 2009)

CFED comments on Beginning Farmer and Rancher IDA regulations (July 2009)

CFED encourages exempting all IDAs from asset limit eligibility in SNAP (June 2009)

CFED supports FHA's Title I Manufactured Home Loan Program (June 2009)

CFED recommends manufactured housing criteria for the "duty to serve" GSE requirements (June 2009)

CFED recommends improvement in adult education programs at the Departments of Labor and Education (May 2009)

CFED encourages reform of the Family Self-Sufficiency Program (February 2009)

CFED opposes FHLBanks use of AHP funds for mortgage refinance (December 2008)