On the recordMay 13, 2010
This amendment will make it a fact of life that individual Americans can more easily access their credit score. A credit score impacts consumers' interest rates, monthly payments on home loans, and can even affect a consumer's ability to buy a car, rent an apartment, and get phone or Internet service. I am very pleased to say I think at this fairly late hour on a Thursday that we have agreed to an approach that will give millions of Americans unsolicited access to their genuine credit score. Our bipartisan amendment will build upon existing law and require disclosure of credit scores to consumers whenever their credit score is used against them.
