2018 ANNUAL REPORT 1 Consumer Federation of America April 2018 Dear CFA Member, In spite of continued challenges posed by the current administration’s anti-regulatory bent, CFA and its members worked diligently in 2018 to protect the American consumer. In Congress, we helped block anti-consumer legislation on such issues as expanding exemptions from federal meat inspection, regulatory “reform” designed to impede regulation, allowing untested autonomous vehicles on the road, and cutting budgets and limiting authority for regulatory agencies. We also supported bills that became law, including legislation providing consumers with the right to freeze their credit reports for free. At the federal regulatory agencies, we advocated for and against proposals on a wide variety of consumer policies. On the plus side, we successfully advocated for the FDA to establish greater transparency surrounding recalls that includes publication of the names and locations of stores that may have sold foods subject to a recall. We were also successful in getting the USDA-FSIS to release establishment-specific data on compliance with Salmonella standards for poultry products. We also submitted comments urging improvements to an SEC proposed Investment Adviser/Broker Dealer regulatory package and criticized the Comptroller of the Currency’s proposal to modernizing Community Reinvestment Act. We submitted over a dozen Requests for Information to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau relating to all aspects of their critically important mission. We opposed the EPA’s effort to roll back fuel economy standards and submitted comments to the CPSC on the internet of things and dangerous furniture tip-overs. In the states, we provided assistance to Attorneys Generals in California, New York, and Oregon who sought to intervene in litigation challenging the DOL fiduciary rule, and supported efforts in New York, Nevada, New Jersey, and Maryland to adopt stronger state-level protections when the DOL rule was overturned. We also worked with the California Attorney General’s office on fuel efficiency standards litigation to protect the ability of 14 states and DC to maintain their vehicle emissions standards in the face of the federal rollback. With state and local member groups, we made strides on prohibiting the use of discriminatory factors in auto insurance pricing, engaged with states, cities and municipalities to oppose increasing OHV access to roads, and worked in California on privacy legislation. We were also able to support state and local groups through three major national conferences, forums, issue briefings, strategy sessions, and grants that were largely funded by Consumer Reports. With assistance from other national consumer groups, we conducted the second annual Consumer Lobby Day, which brought some 143 state and local activists representing 85 organizations to DC to lobby Congress. Sincerely, Jack Gillis Executive Director