Litigation covers a wide range of issues, including product liability, consumer protection, antitrust activity, racketeering, health care reimbursement, and tax evasion.
The legislation would rewrite financial regulations by putting new limits on bank activities, creating an independent consumer protection bureau and adding new rules for largely unregulated financial instruments.
But the activities of the Food and Drug Administration in the field of consumer protection against pesticides are severely limited by two factors.
"It's clear that the opposition's goal is not consumer protection, but protection of foreign offshore companies that profited from illegal activities," he said.
But it can block legislation to which its amendments are refused in most areas of EU activity, including the single market, education, health, transport, consumer protection, and the environment.
And they suggested the office could reopen a wider investigation into Mr. Dalli's activities while he was the European commissioner for health and consumer protection.
The database includes a category called "economic activity," which covers decisions on matters like securities law, consumer protection, mergers and punitive damages.
By contrast, the CFPB is specifically targeting loan servicers' activities to determine whether they're doing right by borrowers or violating consumer protection laws.
"While I am all for the new financial consumer protection agency, I worry about the potential dangers of failing to seek federal preemption for the agency's rules and enforcement activities.
