More than two-thirds of a sample of likely voters surveyed from November 14th-15th, 2023 by Public Policy Polling for NPI backed the idea of regulating unfair oil company business practices with pricing transparency legislation, which is what Senator Joe Nguyen’s recently introduced Oil Industry Accountability Act (Senate Bill 6052) proposes to do.
Tag: Consumer Protection
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Two-thirds of Washington voters support barring gender-based price discrimination
67% of 874 likely voters interviewed in March of 2023 by Public Policy Polling voiced support for prohibiting people or businesses “from charging different prices for two substantially similar goods based on the gender of the persons to whom the goods are marketed,” which is what Senate Bill 5171 would do if enacted. 59% were strongly supportive and another 8% were somewhat supportive.
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Senator Maria Cantwell: A workhorse for the people and the Pacific Northwest in Congress
Cantwell, sixty-four, is not one of the usual suspects seen on networks’ Sunday morning talk shows or shouting over talk radio. She gets stuff done by mastering details, quiet work with colleagues and by serving on a trio of A‑list Senate committees where legislation is put together.
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An overwhelming majority of King County voters oppose the Kroger/Albertsons merger
68% of respondents surveyed for NPI by Change Research said they opposed the merger, while just 17% said they supported it. Nearly half (48%) said they were strongly opposed, while only 5% were strongly supportive.
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A majority of Washington voters agree more with Democrats about the causes of inflation
50% of 782 likely voters interviewed for NPI by Public Policy from October 19th-20th said they agreed more with Democrats about the causes of inflation and price increases, while 43% agreed with Republicans more. 7% were not sure.
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Federal, state governments allege Facebook is an illegal monopoly in major antitrust case
Having foolishly chosen to allow Facebook’s acquisitions of Whatsapp and Instagram several years ago, the federal government is now belatedly moving to unwind those mergers as well as stop the growing power and anticompetitive behaviors of Facebook.
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Democratic AGs discuss taking on Trump and building equity at Netroots Nation 2020
Attorneys general Phil Weiser, Xavier Becerra, Keith Ellison, and Maura Healey helped kickstart the conference with a substantive panel discussion.
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Attorney General Bob Ferguson steps up to defend access to reproductive health services
A stickler for the rule of law, Washington’s chief law enforcement officer has repeatedly taken on the Trump regime… and won.
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U.S. Senate passes Republican-backed bill to weaken Dodd-Frank financial reforms
The United States Senate voted overwhelmingly today to begin dismantling the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, approving Idaho Senator Mike Crapo’s S. 2155 by a vote of sixty-seven to thirty-one.
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Victory! Washington State House votes to toughen penalties for corporate crimes
Corporations that break the law in Washington State could soon be forced to pay more appropriate penalties for their wrongdoing thanks to the work of State Representative Mike Pellicciotti (D‑30th District: Federal Way). By a vote of ninety-seven to one, the Washington State House of Representatives today voted to pass ESHB 2362, which would substantially increase fines for corporate crimes.
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U.S. Senate passes $1.1 trillion, giveaway-stuffed “cromnibus” bill in late night vote
Earlier this evening, following in the footsteps of the House of Representatives, the United States Senate passed the massive appropriations bill that has become known as the CRomnibus, sending the legislation to President Barack Obama, who is prepared to sign it without delay. The final vote was fifty-six to forty; four senators did not vote. The […]
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Republicans (predictably) filibuster Elizabeth Warren’s bill to ease student loan debt
A bill sponsored by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren to ease student loan debt has sadly become the latest worthy piece of legislation to be stalled in the United States Senate by the Republican Party, which might as well officially rename itself the Party of No (because that is its answer to just about every good idea). […]
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Scam alert! An unknown entity, the “Labor Standards Compliance Office”, is trying to sell labor posters with letters that look like bills
An unknown entity calling itself the “Labor Standards Compliance Office” is mass mailing deceptive letters to Washington businesses and nonprofits that appear to be bills from the government, but are in reality solicitations for labor posters that can be freely obtained, the Northwest Progressive Institute has learned. One of these suspicious-looking letters showed up this […]
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U.S. House passes “Citibill” to partially roll back the Dodd-Frank Reform Act
Once again, something is rotten in the people’s House. Earlier today, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted two hundred and ninety-two to one hundred and twenty-two to pass H.R. 992, officially titled the Swaps Regulatory Improvement Act. Like MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, we’re calling H.R. 992 Citibill because it was primarily authored by Citigroup lobbyists. It […]