Suzanne Bonamici - Standing up for consumers - Testimonial

My son is in college in Arizona. I got a call at eleven o’clock saying, Mom there’s an $80 charge on my credit card. He didn’t see the fine print on the website that said, if you don’t return it in fourteen days, your credit card will be charged seventy-five dollars or something like that. And they got his credit card number because he had to pay for shipping and handling of five dollars. Then I filed a complaint with a consumer protection agency of the state and uh – I was really upset about it. And so she put an interim group together um with a trade representative to try to work out some of their issues. I thought she did a great job working with groups of people to craft a bill that would end this kind of practice. She presented the bill and it passed the Senate unanimously and passed the House of Representatives and was signed into law. And what it does is makes it a lot easier for consumers, because what it mandates is that you know you can’t do size six-point print if the rest of the ad in is twenty-four. You gotta do the disclosure in twenty-four. It’s a great idea. She’s a great consumer advocate and what I really liked is she was able to work with all the groups and deal with their issues before the session started. And uh we got the money back.