Consumer Issues/Safety/Products

AI and innovation to benefit consumers and small businesses. Ensuring consumer and small business prosperity related to data privacy. Harmonization of cyber security requirements and incident reporting standards.

Strategic counsel on issues related to FTC investigation.

Work related to safety issues and CPSC voluntary standard on window coverings

Work related to safety issues and the CPSC voluntary standard on window coverings.

Consumer Product Safety Improvement ACT (CPSIA) and CPSC Rulemaking.

NETWORK supports HR 633, the Take It Down Act. The bill provides tools to designed to protect victims of real and deepfake revenge pornography. NETWORK opposed H.J. Res. 61, which seeks to nullify an EPA rule setting hazardous air pollutant standards for rubber tire manufacturing. NETWORK also opposed H.J. Res. 42, which aims to revoke a Department of Energy rule updating certification and labeling requirements for various appliances. NETWORK opposed both resolutions, issuing vote recommendations to protect environmental standards and consumer transparency. Network opposed H.R. 1897, the Endangered Species Act Amendments Act of 2025, would rewrite significant portions of the law to slow the process for listing and recovering threatened and endangered species while expanding exemptions for projects that jeopardize them and fast-tracking the process for delisting them. NETWORK opposed H.R. 5587, the Harnessing Energy At Thermal Sources (HEATS) Act, would eliminate all review, public input, and transparency under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for prescribed geothermal development impacting public lands and resources. NETWORK opposed the Senate vote on a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution of disapproval to overturn protections for the headwaters of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Voyageurs National Park and surrounding Superior National Forest from toxic copper-nickel sulfide ore mining. NETWORK opposed the following House bills that would significantly weaken the Clean Air Act: the FIRE Act, the FENCES Act, and the RED Tape Act. The bills are a direct attack on the health and safety of our communities.

NETWORK supports HR 633, the Take It Down Act. The bill provides tools to designed to protect victims of real and deepfake revenge pornography. NETWORK opposed H.J. Res. 61, which seeks to nullify an EPA rule setting hazardous air pollutant standards for rubber tire manufacturing. NETWORK also opposed H.J. Res. 42, which aims to revoke a Department of Energy rule updating certification and labeling requirements for various appliances. NETWORK opposed both resolutions, issuing vote recommendations to protect environmental standards and consumer transparency. Network opposed H.R. 1897, the Endangered Species Act Amendments Act of 2025, would rewrite significant portions of the law to slow the process for listing and recovering threatened and endangered species while expanding exemptions for projects that jeopardize them and fast-tracking the process for delisting them. NETWORK opposed H.R. 5587, the Harnessing Energy At Thermal Sources (HEATS) Act, would eliminate all review, public input, and transparency under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for prescribed geothermal development impacting public lands and resources. NETWORK opposed the Senate vote on a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution of disapproval to overturn protections for the headwaters of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Voyageurs National Park and surrounding Superior National Forest from toxic copper-nickel sulfide ore mining. NETWORK opposed the following House bills that would significantly weaken the Clean Air Act: the FIRE Act, the FENCES Act, and the RED Tape Act. The bills are a direct attack on the health and safety of our communities.

Environmental, product safety and energy issues including but not limited to packaging standards, recycling policy, extended producer responsibility, lithium-ion battery safety, product safety, Toxic Substances Control Act reauthorization, repair, product energy efficiency

Richard D. Heideman and Heideman Nudelman & Kalik, PC, Washington, DC represent Solvi Cyprus, which has an existing agreement with the National Bank of Uzbekistan to provide citizens of Uzbekistan with a VISA-platform payment system. Members of Congress and of the US government are being or will be contacted with regard to supporting Solfy Cyprus' continuation of providing VISA-platform payment services to citizens of Uzbekistan, consistent with US national security and economic interests encouraging free market based regional economic development initiatives and services.

General issues related to privacy, data security, verification and identity tools, publishing, and public records. Specific issues included: draft privacy and data security proposals, issues related to fraud control and authentication protections; CFPB proposals and legislative proposals related to FCRA, including issues related to credit headers; draft proposals related to authentication and fraud control involving federal benefits programs; and intellectual property and copyright protections.