As a state official, I oppose Federal legislation that limits our ability at the state level to respond to and to safeguard our residents.

The law should preserve the states' ability to use their own consumer protection laws and Congress should give the states the right to enforce the Federal law.

Congress should include a provision that requires entities holding sensitive information to take reasonable steps to protect that information.

At the end of the day, our concern is all the same, right? We are trying to protect individuals from any sort of identity theft and financial damage that could occur because of it.

Student loan debt should not prevent millions of them from fully participating in the economy or ever achieving financial security.

You have the power to put an end to for-profit abuses, and you should not hesitate to do so.

You can't keep on giving money out to these predatory subprime colleges. It is a waste of taxpayer dollars and, worse than that, you are ruining people's lives by allowing it to happen.

Addressing data breaches and preventing them is critical to our financial security and our economy.

The recent Target breach served as a wake-up call that government and the private sector need to take serious meaningful actions.

I support Senator Durbin's bill to allow private student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy

we are looking at student loans as really just the next predatory lending issue that we need to contend with.

Most consumers are completely unaware that their phone number can be charged almost like a credit card.

I believe that the only effective solution is to enact legislation banning third-party charges on phone bills.

I strongly support decisive legislative action on the state and federal level to ban the practice altogether.

I think the only people who would describe third-party charges being crammed on phone bills as a convenience might be the carriers, the aggregators, and the vendors.

We want to ban third-party charges on phone bills because we have yet to see anything legitimate, in terms of the products or services.

It is insane that we have to spend countless hours... and then, you know, we get restitution for... many of those consumers.

As the attorney general of Illinois, I have no objection to abrogating State eleventh amendment immunity under ENDA.

I believe that the experience in Illinois speaks strongly in favor of Federal action to protect citizens across our country from unfair workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Again, this is a necessary and useful law to protect people--all people in the State of Illinois--and certainly it is long overdue that these protections exist across the country.

We do not. In fact, when we went to amend our Human Rights Act in 2005, there was significant support among people in the religious communities of our State for this amendment to include sexual orientation and gender identity.

State enforcement actions have been hamstrung by the dual forces of preemption of State authority and lack of Federal oversight.

We think it is very clear that he is incapable of serving. And we are certainly hopeful that the Illinois Supreme Court will hear this matter and appoint Lieutenant Governor Quinn as the acting governor.

How dare you? How dare you put people into loans when you knew they didn't understand them, you knew they couldn't afford them, and you knew they couldn't get out of those loans?