In January 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) launched an initiative to save consumers billions of dollars in exploitative “junk fees,” including overdraft fees. In 2019 alone, large banks earned approximately $15.47 billion from overdraft and non-sufficient funds fees.
In July 2022, Fortune 500 Companies And Corporate Trade Groups, Such As Eli Lilly, Wells Fargo, And The American Bankers Association Gave At Least $731,906 To The Members Of Congress Who Voted Against Certifying the 2020 Election Results Following the Insurrection on January 6th, 2021—A Group That Has Been Dubbed The “Sedition Caucus.”
Big Oil executives celebrated record-breaking profits of $138 billion in Q2 of 2022 from producing and selling oil. But when speaking to investors, oil executives used deceptive terms like “net zero” and “low carbon” to suggest they want to move away from oil and gas.
Right-wing megadonor Barre Seid has a history of funding controversial conservative political efforts, including a short-lived, right-wing political party in Illinois, called the Term Limits and Tax Limits Party.
Vanita Gupta’s nomination to serve as Associate Attorney General at the Justice Department was marred by right-wing smears, though she was confirmed in April 2021 after being nominated in January 2021.
Arun Venkataraman, an Indian American nominated for Assistant Secretary and Director General of the US and Foreign Commercial Service, waited 315 days from his nomination to confirmation. This is 226.25 days longer than the average timeline for Biden’s Department of Commerce Nominees.
The nomination of professor of soil biogeochemistry Dr. Asmeret Berhe to the position of director of the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science took over four times as long as the average Biden DOE nominee in the administration’s first year.
On January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden formally nominated Debra Haaland as Secretary of the Interior, making her the first Native American person to be nominated to a cabinet secretary position. Haaland is an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna in New Mexico and served as a U.S. Representative at the time of her nomination.
The nomination of former FCC aid and Georgetown Law Fellow Gigi Sohn to the position of FCC commissioner was history-making, as Sohn would be the first openly LGBTQ individual to serve as a commissioner.
The nomination of Kalpana Kotagal to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is still ongoing. Kotagal was nominated to serve as a commissioner on the EEOC in April 2022 and would give the democrats a 3-2 majority on the Commission.
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