Dear Members of the House of Representatives and Senate: I urge you to reject any and all efforts to undermine the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Contact Lens Rule. Blocking the FTC’s Contact Lens Rule would undermine...
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From National Taxpayers Union: Lawmakers Should Not Interfere With FTC Contact Lens Rule in Lame-Duck
Dear Chairman Shelby, Ranking Member Leahy, and Members of the Committee: As you approach the government funding deadline on December 11, there are numerous proposals on the table that many consider to be candidates for adding...
Letter from Consumer Reports to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Dear Chairman Wicker and Ranking Member Cantwell: Consumer Reports urges the Committee not to approve S. 4613, the so-called Contact Lens Rule Modernization Act. This mis-named and ill-conceived legislation would remove the key compliance mechanism built...
Letter from National Taxpayers Union to the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
Dear Chairman Wicker, Ranking Member Cantwell, and Members of the Committee: As you approach a scheduled markup of S. 4613, the Contact Lens Rule Modernization Act, I write on behalf of National Taxpayers Union (NTU) to...
Letter from the National Association of Optometrists and Opticians to the US Senate Commerce Committee
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From the Coalition: Letter to the US Senate Appropriations Committee
Dear Chairman Shelby, Ranking Member Leahy, and the distinguished members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, We write today with deep concerns about report language that has been added to the FY 21 Financial Services and General...
Letter from the NHMA and LULAC to the US Senate Commerce Committee
Dear Chair Wicker, Ranking Member Cantwell and the distinguished members of the Senate Commerce Committee, The National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) write today to ask you to...
From the Coalition: Letter to the Senate Commerce Committee
Dear Chairman Wicker, Ranking Member Cantwell and distinguished members of the Senate Commerce Committee, We are deeply concerned to hear you are planning a mark-up of S.4613, Senator Boozman’s bill to undercut the FTC’s Contact Lens...
From our Members: 1-800 Contacts Celebrates Strengthened Consumer Rights in Contact Lens Rule
1-800 Contacts, the largest retailer of contact lenses in the U.S., wants the estimated 45 million Americans who wear contact lenses to understand their new consumer rights granted in the final Contact Lens Rule (CLR) which...
From National Taxpayers Union: Pro-Taxpayer Regulatory Reform Will Boost Vision Care Choice—If Policymakers See Clearly
Shortly after the official implementation date of an important modification to the Federal Trade Commission's Contact Lens rule, National Taxpayers Union (NTU) President Pete Sepp offered the following statement: This week should mark the successful conclusion...