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U.S. Treasurer Jovita Carranza was among the witnesses at a Senate Health subcommittee roundtable on financial literacy and retirement savings. Senators asked her and private industry…

Victoria Espinel and and Nuala O’Connor, respectively the presidents and CEOs of BSA-The Software Alliance and the Center for Democracy and Technology, talked about the European Union’s…

Consumer Product Safety Commission Acting Chair Ann Marie Buerkle talked about her agency’s mission and legislative priorities.

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection held an oversight hearing with all five Federal Trade Commission commissioners. They answered…

Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), who chairs the Senate Special Committee on Aging, delivered a speech at the Pew Charitable Trusts on prescription drug prices. She outlined investigative work…

The heads of T-Mobile and Sprint testified before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the proposed merger that would form the country’s second largest wireless carrier. They talked about how the…

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar testified at a hearing on efforts to limit increases in prescription drug prices without disincentivizing research and development efforts by major pharmaceutical firms. He…

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar testified before the Senate Health Committee on President Trump’s plan to reduce prescription drug costs for patients. In his testimony, Secretary…

The chairs of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) testified at a hearing on their agencies' respective fiscal year 2019 budget requests. Some of the…

Technology experts talked about recent data challenges with Equifax and Facebook. They also discussed how corporations were dealing with the fallout from security breaches and best practices in…

Consumer advocates talked about the challenges around the expansion and modernization of the digital electric grid and the concerns around privacy and accessibility to low-income and rural…

Ann Marie Buerkle, acting chair of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, addressed a forum hosted by the Consumer Federation of America. The event brought together government,…

The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security convened a hearing to examine the dangers of identity theft or losing one’s Social Security number. Notable witnesses included…

"The Communicators visited a Capitol Hill "hackathon"seminar in which congressional staffers and employees from government agencies and outside groups brainstorm about how to use technology to open up…

Gigi Sohn and Robert McDowell talked about the proposed merger of T-Mobile and Sprint and what it means for the two companies, consumers, and the wider cellular and communications world.

Panelists talked about New Americ ‘s 2018 study that ranks major global telecommunications and internet companies based on their digital platform policies relating to users’ privacy and…

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), House Minority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), along with staffers and others at a congressional “Hackathon,” talked about their efforts to make…

Communications analysts and officials from the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission talked about ways to deal with illegal robocalls. The panelists focused on…

White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, also the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director, testified before the House Financial Services Committee on the consumer agency’s semi-annual report to…

Representatives from the Center for Food Integrity, the Think Healthy Group, and the Center for Science in the Public Interest took part in a panel discussion of the Consumer Federation of…