We all know what can happen on Wall Street if there are no rules and no accountability.

That's why Fair Share supports the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Consumer Bureau) -- to watch out for predatory and deceptive behavior in the financial industry. And it's working. It has returned $12 billion to 27 million Americans who were victimized by shady lending or financial trickery.

Some in Congress are pushing to shut down the CFPB. But if we can get just 41 votes to protect the agency, we can create a firewall in the Senate.

Take a quick moment to email your senators, telling

On Feb. 3, 2017, the Senate voted 52-48 to scrap a rule designed to prevent oil companies from bribing foreign officials. Referred to as the Cardin-Lugar transparency provision, the rule required U.S.-listed drilling and mining companies including Exxon, Chevron and many others to publish details of their payments to governments across the world in return for rights to natural resources, with the goal of ending corruption. Fair Share's Nathan Proctor had this statement:

"We cannot tolerate a society where the rules only apply to some, but not the most powerful companies.

Anti-hunger advocates were relieved to hear that our message that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is working is getting through to Congress. This week, the House released a report on a two-year, top-to-bottom review of SNAP and found that the program is effective and necessary.

In an statement published at Politico, House Agriculture Committee Chair Mike Conway (R-Texas) said "You will find nothing in this report that suggests gutting SNAP or getting rid of a program that does so much to serve so many."

This represents somewhat of a reversal on previous statements, which