The National Consumers League Applauds the Reintroduction of the Treat and Reduce Obesity Act; Urges Swift Action

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Media Contact: Lisa McDonald, Vice President of Communications, 202-207-2829 

Washington, DC – Months after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) determined in a proposed rule that Medicare Part D should cover anti-obesity medications as a “medically necessary” service for people with the disease of obesity, the National Consumers League today applauded the reintroduction of the Treat and Reduce Obesity Act (TROA) in the 119th Congress as a critical step towards realizing this goal.  

Introduced in the Senate by Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), TROA aims to advance obesity care for older Americans by expanding access to intensive behavioral therapy (IBT) beyond the primary care setting and by allowing Medicare Part D to cover FDA approved anti-obesity medications (AOMs), including new injectable drugs called GLP-1s (glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists). As such, TROA’s passage would end discriminatory and out-of-date Medicare policies and remove one of the biggest obstacles impeding access to quality obesity care by ensuring Medicare beneficiaries with obesity will have the same access to GLP-1s as those prescribed these drugs for treatment of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.  

When TROA was first introduced during the 113th Congress in 2013, 37.7 percent of adult Americans, or one in three adults, were living with obesity, and the American Medical Association responded by officially recognizing obesity as a serious disease requiring treatment. Now, obesity affects 41.9 percent of US adults  – more than 100 million people – which makes obesity the most prevalent chronic disease affecting Americans, significantly eclipsing the other most prevalent chronic diseases: heart disease, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, cancer, chronic lung disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, and stroke. Even more significantly, more than 230 medical conditions are directly linked to overweight and obesity, meaning these diseases worsen as the degree of obesity increases. Thus, obesity today is responsible for an estimated 400,000 deaths a year and costs the US economy an estimated $1.72 trillion annually. 

Also of note, the science of obesity treatment has changed significantly since the Medicare Part D program went into effect in 2006, resulting in new therapeutic agents, such as GLP-1 drugs, that can help people lose up to 20 percent of their weight in 26 months. Calculating the potential savings resulting from better health outcomes when obesity is treated, studies are beginning to project the potential savings to the economy from covering obesity medications. One recent study published December 5, 2024, in JAMA Network Open, estimated that a 10 percent weight loss resulting from obesity treatment saved $2,430 in reduced medical expenditures, and for a 25 percent weight loss, the reduction in health expenditures is $5,444 per person.  

Besides these reasons, the National Consumers League welcomes the reintroduction of TROA as a way that Congress can drive nationwide adoption of the Obesity Bill of Rights, issued by NCL and the National Council on Aging (NCOA) in 2024. The Obesity Bill of Rights defines quality obesity care as the right of all adults and establishes eight essential rights, including the right for older adults to receive quality obesity care and the right to coverage for the full range of treatment options so Americans with obesity will get the care specified in medical guidelines.  

Accordingly, NCL looks forward to working with Senators Cassidy and Lujan to build support for TROA and to working with the sponsors of the companion House bill, which will be introduced soon. At a time when so much is at stake for the health of older adults, TROA can be a catalyst for Congress to help older adults realize these rights and improve the standard of care for millions of Americans with obesity.  

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About the National Consumers League (NCL)      

The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America’s pioneer consumer organization. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit www.nclnet.org.    

NCL calls on congress to reject CPSC’s budget request 

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Media Contact: Lisa McDonald, Vice President of Communications, 202-207-2829 

 Washington, DC – The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) proposes dramatic restructuring of the agency, reductions in staffing, and decreases in funding in its Fiscal Year 2026 Performance Budget Request to Congress.  The budget recommends that Congress pass legislation transferring the functions of the CPSC to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).  The budget also recommends a 10 percent funding cut and 14 percent reduction of staff. 

“The CPSC’s budget request puts partisanship before product safety,” said Daniel Greene, Senior Director of Consumer Protection & Product Safety. “Eliminating the independence and nonpartisanship of the CPSC could result in a lack of vigorous standard setting, oversight, and enforcement.  Coupled with deep cuts to resources and staff, this dangerous budget proposal could lead to more preventable injuries and deaths.  We call on Congress to reject this budget request and provide the CPSC with the funding, personnel, and authorities to carry out its lifesaving mission.”  

In May, NCL led a letter of 158 advocates opposing plans to eliminate the CPSC and transfer the agency’s functions to HHS. 

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About the National Consumers League (NCL)      

The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America’s pioneer consumer organization. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit www.nclnet.org.    

Fans urge changes to New York’s “Live Nation Welfare Bill”

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Media Contact: Lisa McDonald, Vice President of Communications, 202,207,2829

New York, NY — The National Consumers League and Sports Fans Coalition (SFC) are calling on New York legislators to amend A8651/S822 warning that as currently written, it could further entrench monopolistic control over ticket sales in the Empire State and harm consumers.

While the proposed legislation includes many pro-consumer provisions supported by both organizations, it was unexpectedly changed prior to introduction to contain special interest handouts that will strengthen Live Nation/Ticketmaster’s control of the ticketing market in the state, potentially weakening the landmark monopoly case underway by New York Attorney General Tish James, 39 other state attorneys general, and the U.S. Department of Justice. The National Consumers League and Sports Fans Coalition intended to support the introduction of this legislation after many months working with the sponsoring legislators, though now oppose the legislation unless it is amended.

“We’re all in for more transparency and stronger refund rules. That’s solid work. But this bill, as written, also opens a backdoor that could let the monopoly cartel lock out fans from fair resale and deepen its grip on live events forcing safe, protected ticket sales offline where consumers will get scammed many times over,” said Brian Hess, Executive Director of Sports Fans Coalition.

As detailed in a letter sent to lawmakers on May 28, the groups’ chief concern is that under this legislation Ticketmaster, as the largest seller of tickets in New York, would be handed new and outsized control to dictate how and whether tickets already sold can be resold by the ticketholder who purchased them.

“Live Nation and its affiliated artists and venues are pitching ticket resale restrictions as a panacea for all of fans’ frustrations with the ticket marketplace. Unfortunately, the reality is that the proposed restrictions are a fast track to more fraud. Artificially limiting consumer access to ticket marketplaces pushes fans into the shadows of the internet—Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, and shady international sites—where scammers thrive. If New York moves forward with this bill, it must also boost enforcement resources for Attorney General Letitia James. Without it, fans will be left defenseless in a growing black market,” said John Breyault, vice-president of the National Consumers League. “

Fans are right to be frustrated when they are priced out of their favorite events. However, event organizers typically put their events on sale months ahead of an event. In the intervening time, life happens – kids get sick, jobs get moved, plans change. It is important that consumers have access to competitive ticket marketplaces where they can sell and buy unwanted tickets. This also gives fans access to discounted tickets. Indeed, the data bears this out. A recent study found that 55% of events offered tickets below the original price, resulting in in more than $440 million in savings nationally and $41.7 million in savings in New York State in 2023.

If passed, the legislation could restrict a ticketholder who cannot attend an event at the last minute from finding a legitimate secondary market source to sell their ticket. By comparison, Live Nation and the artists and venues it controls would be free to dynamically price tickets. The effect is that a ticket purchased in the same row for the same event can be priced dramatically differently from consumer to consumer based on the vast amounts of personal data Ticketmaster has about concertgoers.

Ticketmaster (which is owned by Live Nation) is already the second largest ticket resale marketplace in the nation. The likely effect of allowing Live Nation and the artists and venues it controls to dictate the terms of ticket resale is that Ticketmaster will gobble up even more of the resale market than it currently has. If the legislation passes, we also anticipate that Live Nation-controlled artists and venues will take steps to cut “preferred reseller” deals with Ticketmaster. This will allow Ticketmaster to double dip on fees for the same pair of tickets – during their initial sale, and again when they are resold on the Ticketmaster platform.

The bill does contain several pro-fan provisions. For example, the bill would require disclosure of some deceptive ticket holdbacks. Holdbacks (also known as allocations) are a nefarious practice where Ticketmaster, venues, artists and teams secretly create fake scarcity when tickets go on sale. Through deceptive holdbacks, so-called primary ticket sellers (Ticketmaster, venue box offices, artists) slowly drip tickets onto the market to create the illusion of a sold-out event. The legislation would make this longtime industry secret illegal for the largest events, requiring the disclosure of holdbacks and limiting the number of tickets that can be held back. An informed consumer, knowing how many tickets remain for an event for future sale, is more capable of making the smartest purchase decision, whether to buy their tickets immediately, wait for more to be released in the weeks or months ahead, or comparison shop form other sellers. Additionally, the bill proposes that if a postponed event isn’t rescheduled within three months, ticket sellers must issue refunds—a provision that advocates strongly support.

A8651/S822 is a bill that our organizations would very much like to support. Unfortunately, special interests have allowed it to become a vehicle for Live Nation’s monopoly ambitions in New York. We urge Senator Skoufis to work with us to ensure that fans – not Live Nation and the artists and venues it controls – are the real winners from this bill.

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About the National Consumers League (NCL)      

The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America’s pioneer consumer organization. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit www.nclnet.org.    

Guest blog: Trump’s war on the CPSC is the most dangerous yet

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By Robert Adler and R. David Pittle, Ph.D.

If you think that President Trump’s legally dubious war on regulatory agencies like EEOC, NLRB, and FTC is outrageous, be prepared to recognize the tiny Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) as the hands-down winner for most savaged regulatory agency in this administration.

CPSC is the federal body whose sole mission is to reduce the estimated 49,000 deaths and 28 million medically treated injuries from using consumer products; these losses cost the country $1 trillion annually.

Not only has Trump just illegally fired the Democratic commissioners – and only the Democrats – at CPSC, he has also, according to a leaked OMB budget document, coupled this action with a proposed dismantling of the agency. If he gets his way, he will send CPSC’s substantially reduced staff and diminished authority into the bowels of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) never to be seen again.

This situation is so dire for consumers because unlike the independent agencies where Trump has fired commissioners but left their basic structures intact, his demolition of CPSC will prevent the agency from doing its core work or ever reconstituting itself. Once it has been torn apart, entombed in HHS, and its already minuscule budget skeletonized, the odds of restoring CPSC’s ability to function effectively to protect consumers will be virtually nil. The consequences for consumers will be increased deaths and injuries.

To say the least, parents throughout the country should be alarmed. For the past fifty years, CPSC has been the one agency most dedicated to protecting children from dangerous products. Worst of all, many of these hazards are not obvious to the naked or untrained eye.

Parents should particularly worry because not only is it likely that the new emasculated HHS safety division’s existing standards will be weakened but also future safety rules to protect their children will simply not be written. Behind the scenes, it will take only a wink-and-a-nod from the political idealogues overseeing the new division to stop safety actions in their tracks. And such inaction will go unnoticed given its newly imposed invisibility.

What makes CPSC so valuable to consumers and especially parents is its focus on hidden hazards, i.e., those risks to children that the most safety-conscious parents would not discover even after carefully inspecting a crib or a toy they’re about to purchase. For instance, determining whether a crib’s slats are too far apart—permitting a child’s body but not their head to slip through the slats too often resulting in the child’s strangulation – is not obvious. Nor can careful inspection reveal whether a doll has excessive amounts of toxic lead or contains small parts that could easily break free and choke a child.

CPSC can uncover these hazards because it meticulously and relentlessly surveys the market for injuries, illness, and deaths associated with consumer products. Once it has determined that a hazard needs to be addressed, CPSC can quickly mobilize manufacturers, consumers, voluntary standards groups, retailers, product designers, and the media to attack the problem.

Unfortunately, no one has yet found a way to eliminate products with design defects and manufacturing errors from creeping into the marketplace. The press of fierce competition has shown over the years that such mistakes are inevitable, and consumers pay a painful price. An effective CPSC to find and correct these mistakes is an essential guardrail for consumers.

One might ask why it’s so important that CPSC remain as an independent, highly visible agency. As former CPSC Commissioners who have worked at, monitored, and written about the agency for the past fifty years, we believe the answer is unambiguous: To be effective in protecting consumers from serous safety hazards, the agency needs to be free of improper control from political and commercial interests – concerns that led Congress in 1972 specifically to reject placing CPSC within what was then known as Health, Education & Welfare (HEW). And, it must have the ability to take swift action that gets the public’s attention without going through endless, time-consuming levels of review.

In short, were CPSC to be subsumed in a monolith like HHS and stripped of its independence and visibility, the likelihood of timely and effective safety action would be seriously compromised.

Consumers have benefited greatly from CPSC’s actions. Since the agency opened its doors in 1973, it has reduced the number of crib deaths by nearly 80 percent, childhood poisonings by over 80 percent, injuries from fire by 41 percent, injuries from baby walkers by almost 90 percent, and virtually eliminated childhood suffocations from playing in abandoned refrigerators. The complete list goes on and on, but the fact remains that CPSC provides one of the biggest bangs for the buck in government.

Product safety is not a political issue. The battle against human losses from unreasonably dangerous products must go on without political interference. To do otherwise would be a major injustice against consumers and their families, prompting us to recall Reinhold Niebuhr’s famous observation:

“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”

“Congress just put America last”— NCL slams Senate for undermining clean air, consumer rights

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Media Contact: Lisa McDonald, Vice President of Communications, 202-207-2829 

Washington, DC – Today, the United States Senate passed three Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions that restrict states’ rights to establish robust tailpipe emission standards.  Having passed the House of Representatives, these resolutions will now go to the President’s desk for signature.  

“In the midst of a global race to develop and manufacture clean, efficient vehicles, Congress just put America last,” said Daniel Greene, Senior Director of Consumer Protection & Product Safety Policy.  “This is a self-defeating attack on American manufacturing, affordability, health, and the environment.  The effect on consumers will be disastrous: pain at the pump, dirtier air, more extreme weather, and a less economically competitive nation.”   

Under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may issue a waiver to the State of California to exceed federal emission standards for motor vehicles.  Other states are permitted to adopt California’s standards.  In 2024, the EPA provided California waivers for the State’s Advanced Clean Cars II (ACC II), Advanced Clean Trucks, and Omnibus NOx rules.  These standards, which have been adopted in whole or in part by 17 states, have nationwide benefits: conserving energy, combating the climate crisis, improving health, and reducing pain at the pump.  

Please see this fact sheet detailing the CRAs and their effect on American competitiveness, affordability, health, and the environment. 

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About the National Consumers League (NCL)      

The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America’s pioneer consumer organization. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit www.nclnet.org. 

DOT’s abandonment of Southwest litigation will leave passengers worse off 

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 Media Contact: Lisa McDonald, Vice President of Communications, 202-207-2829 

Washington, DC — Last week, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) quietly dropped its historic lawsuit against Southwest Airlines, which had originally been filed over the carrier’s unrealistic scheduling. The litigation would have been the first time an airline attempted to defend its chronic delays in court.   

“DOT’s decision to drop its lawsuit against Southwest will leave passengers worse off,” said NCL CEO Sally Greenberg. “Ignoring law violations just because the offender is a corporation is not a healthy or sustainable policy. The Department’s abandonment of the litigation sends a message to travelers around the globe that our government is more interested in protecting powerful airlines than the flying public.”   

DOT’s original complaint cited Southwest’s own data submitted to the agency, highlighting nearly 150 flights that violated federal law prohibiting unrealistically scheduled routes. For example, in one of the months listed in the complaint, Southwest’s statistics showed that 22 out of 26 trips made by Flight 1614 between Baltimore, Maryland, and Cleveland, Ohio, did not arrive on time, with an average delay of 66 minutes.   

The now-withdrawn lawsuit appropriately stated that “[h]olding out these chronically delayed flights disregarded consumers’ need to have reliable information about the real arrival time of a flight and harmed thousands of passengers traveling on these Southwest flights by causing disruptions to travel plans or other plans.”  

The federal prohibition on unrealistic scheduling has been on the books since 1957. Yet, airlines had not been held accountable for violations until Transportation Secretary Buttigieg, who brought fines against JetBlue and Frontier, and the now-abandoned lawsuit against Southwest.   

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About the National Consumers League (NCL)      

The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America’s pioneer consumer organization. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit www.nclnet.org.    

NCL Denounces Illegal Attempt to Fire CPSC Commissioners

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Media Contact: Maggie Oliverio, Communications Associate, 202-207-2831

Washington, DC – The National Consumers League calls on the Trump administration to rescind the illegal attempt to fire Democratic Commissioners on the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

“This unprecedented assault on our nation’s regulator of household product safety is in direct contravention of the spirit and letter of the law, runs afoul of decades of Supreme Court precedent, and threatens to cripple the CPSC’s ability to carry out its lifesaving mission,” said Daniel Greene, the Senior Director of Consumer Protection & Product Safety at the National Consumers League. “Diverse opinions improve safety. Silencing the voices of subject matter experts with whom you politically disagree does not improve government efficiency. It just leads to more unnecessary deaths and more unnecessary injuries.”

Last night, Commissioners Richard Trumka and Commissioner Mary T. Boyle of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) received an email from the White House purporting to fire them.  Commissioner Alexander Hoehn-Saric did not receive such an email but is being prevented from executing his duties by the Acting Chair.

Commissioner Richard Trumka’s statement is available HERE

Commissioner Alexander Hoehn-Saric statement is available HERE

Commissioner Mary T. Boyle’s statement is available HERE 

A letter from 159 advocates opposing plans to eliminate the CPSC can be found HERE

A video of victims’ parents advocating to protect the CPSC can be found HERE

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About the National Consumers League (NCL)      

The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America’s pioneer consumer organization. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit www.nclnet.org.    

158 Advocates Send Letter Opposing Plan to Eliminate the CPSC

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Media Contact: Lisa McDonald, Vice President of Communications, 202-207-2829 

Washington, DC – Today, the National Consumers League, Consumer Federation of America, Consumer Reports, and 156 other product safety advocates sent a letter to Russell Vought, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, expressing their strong opposition to any attempt to eliminate, defund, or weaken the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

The CPSC is an independent federal agency commissioned by Congress to protect the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death from consumer products through education, safety standards, regulation, and enforcement.  According to a draft budget document, the Trump administration is finalizing a proposal to eliminate the CPSC and transfer the agency’s functions to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

“If implemented, this proposal would eradicate – not reorganize – our nation’s governance of product safety,” the product safety advocates write. “Congress deliberately established an independent agency exclusively charged with the safety of consumer products.  Such independence ensures that product safety issues are treated like the public safety imperative they so clearly are.  We urge you to preserve an independent, bipartisan CPSC and ensure the agency has the appropriate tools, resources, and personnel to carry out its lifesaving mission.”

A copy of the letter can be found HERE  

A video of victims’ parents advocating to protect the CPSC can be found HERE

Letter cosigners:

National Consumers League

Consumer Federation of America

Consumer Reports

Access Ready Inc.

Action on Smoking and Health

Aden Lamps Foundation

Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety

Aging Life Care Association

America Walks

American Academy of Pediatrics

American Apparel & Footwear Association

Appliance Standards Awareness Project

Association of Pedestrian & Bicycle Professionals (APBP)

Autistic Self Advocacy Network

Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota

Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia

Bicycle Colorado

Bike Cleveland

Bike Jeffco

Bike LA

Bike Oven

Bike Pittsburgh

Bike Walk Savannah

BikeWalkKC

BikeWalkNC

BioInjury

Breast Cancer Prevention Partners

California Bicycle Coalition

Center for Auto Safety

Center for Economic Integrity

Center for Economic Justice

Center for Medicare Advocacy

Center for Pet Safety

Charlie’s House

Child Care Aware of Virginia

ChildSavers

Citizens Action Coalition of IN

Claire Bear Foundation

CommunicationFIRST

Consumer Action

Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety

Cribs for Kids

Derrick Stone Safe Sleep

Detroit Greenways Coalition

Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF)

Diversity In Aquatics

Earth Ethics, Inc.

East Coast Greenway Alliance

Economic Action Maryland Fund

Epilepsy Foundation of America

Families for Safe Streets

First Candle

Florida Bicycle Association

Florida Silver Haired Legislature Inc

Food Empowerment Project

Friends of the Concord-Lake Sunapee Rail Trail

Funeral Consumers Alliance of South Carolina

Georgia Watch

Government Information Watch

Green America

Haddie’s Calling

Hawai’i Bicycling League

Healthy Babies Bright Futures

HealthyWomen

Homestretch Nonprofit Housing Corp.

Human Powered Solutions LLC

Impact Teen Drivers

Jacob Bikes

Joseph A Sanzari Children’s Hospital

Just Strategy

Keeping Babies Safe

Kids and Car Safety

La Isla Network

Lead on Solutions, LLC

League of American Bicyclists

Living Streets Alliance

Local Motion

Madison Bikes, Inc.

Marin County Bicycle Coalition

MassBike

Missourians for Responsible Transportation

Move Redmond

Muscular Dystrophy Association

Napa County Bicycle Coalition

National Association of Consumer Advocates

National Bicycle Dealers Association

National Carbon Monoxide Awareness Association

National Center for Healthy Housing

National Coalition for Safer Roads

National Drowning Prevention Alliance

New Jersey Bike & Walk Coalition

Oregon Consumer Justice

Oregon Consumer League

Parents Against Tip-Overs

Parents for Window Blind Safety

Paterson Task Force for Community Action, Inc.

Pennsylvania Downtown Center

People Power United

Pool and Hot Tub Alliance

Propel ATL

Public Citizen

Reconnect Rochester

Responsible Sourcing Network

Ride Illinois

Ride of Silence

Safe Infant Sleep

Safety Research & Strategies

Sciencecorps

Shane’s Foundation, NFP

Shepard’s Watch Foundation

Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition

South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center

Stop Drowning Now

StopDistractions.org

SwimJim

Tempe Bicycle Action Group

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSP)

The National Carbon Monoxide Awareness Association

Transportation Alternatives

Travel Goods Association (TGA)

Truck Safety Coalition

United States Swim School Association

Unleaded Kids

Virginia Citizens Consumer Council

Vision 2020 Project

Walk ‘n Rollers

Washington Area Bicyclist Association

Whirlwind Wheelchair International

Wisconsin Bike Fed

Yakima Bikes and Walks!

Alissa K. Sandler, Product Safety Advocate

Angela Williams, Product Safety Advocate

Ashley Haugen, That Water Bead Lady

Cindy Mense, Product Safety Advocate

Dr. Free N. Hess, Product Safety Advocate

Elizabeth Hemmerlin, Product Safety Advocate

Ernest Bach, Product Safety Advocate

Garrett Kellermab, Product Safety Advocate

Heather Stephens, Product Safety Advocate

Heidi Perry, Product Safety Advocate

Janet McGee, Parent Product Safety Advocate

Jayshree Kumta, Product Safety Advocate

Judith Solomon, Product Safety Advocate

Kelley Ladick, Product Safety Advocate

Lori Winkler, MSN, RN, TNS, CPEN, Product Safety Advocate

Marjon Manitius, Product Safety Advocate

Marjorie Murray, Product Safety Advocate

Mary Jagim, Product Safety Advocate

Michael Haggard, Product Safety Advocate

Pamela Gilbert, National Consumers League Board Member

Paul Susca, Product Safety Advocate

Robert W Browne, Product Safety Advocate

Sandeep Khatua, Product Safety Advocate

Sarah Sorscher, Product Safety Advocate

Sara Thompson, Parent Safety Advocate

Shayna Raphael, Product Safety Advocate

Stephen W Hargarten, Product Safety Advocate

Taylor Bethard, That Water Bead Lady & Esther’s Mom

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About the National Consumers League (NCL)      

The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America’s pioneer consumer organization. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit www.nclnet.org.    

House votes for fair ticketing: TICKET Act advances with broad bipartisan support 

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Media Contact: Lisa McDonald, Vice President of Communications, 202-207-2829  

Washington, DC – The National Consumers League (NCL) praises the U.S. House of Representatives for its overwhelming and bipartisan vote to pass the TICKET Act (H.R. 1402)—a critical step toward reforming the broken live event ticketing market. 

“The House has once again made clear: consumers deserve transparency and fairness when buying event tickets,” said John Breyault, NCL VP of Public Policy, Telecommunications and Fraud. “This legislation puts an end to hidden fees and deceptive resale practices that have cheated fans for too long. With the House having acted, the Senate must now move swiftly to pass the TICKET Act and send it to the President’s desk. With so many live events coming this summer, consumers can’t afford more delays.” 

The TICKET Act requires all-in pricing and includes new safeguards to combat ticketing scams. The legislation passed easily in the House and closely mirrors a Senate version that already advanced out of the Senate Commerce Committee earlier this year with strong bipartisan support. NCL has long championed these reforms and is optimistic about the TICKET Act’s prospects in this Congress. 

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About the National Consumers League (NCL)       

The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America’s pioneer consumer organization. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit www.nclnet.org.   

NCL praises U.S. House for advancing key consumer safety and supply chain bills

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Media Contact: Lisa McDonald, Vice President of Communications, 202-207-2829  

Washington, DC – The National Consumers League praises the U.S. House of Representatives for the passing of several pieces of legislation that strengthen consumer protections, enhance public safety, and reinforce supply chain resilience. The passage of H.R. 973 – Setting Consumer Standards for Lithium-Ion Batteries Act, H.R. 1442 – Youth Poisoning Protection Act, and H.R. 2444 – Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act of 2025 marks a significant step forward in safeguarding the well-being of American families.  

“These bills reflect a bipartisan commitment to protecting consumers from preventable hazards and building a safer, more secure future,” said Daniel Greene, Senior Director, Consumer Protection and Product Safety Policy. “From the risks posed by unsafe lithium-ion batteries to the ongoing dangers of accidental poisonings among children and the urgent need to stabilize our supply chains—these measures are timely, evidence-based, and deeply impactful.”  

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About the National Consumers League (NCL)       

The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America’s pioneer consumer organization. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit www.nclnet.org.