Editing Amway (section)

===Lobbying for deregulation===
The DeVoses supported an amendment to the US House of Representatives' omnibus Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2018 by US Representative [[John Moolenaar]] that would have limited the ability of the FTC to investigate whether MLMs are pyramid schemes.<ref name="Kosman2017">{{cite news|last1=Kosman|first1=John|title=DeVos' family seeks deregulation of Amway so it can beat Herbalife|url=https://nypost.com/2017/09/18/devos-family-seeks-deregulation-of-amway-so-it-can-beat-herbalife/|access-date=6 May 2018|work=[[New York Post]]|date=18 September 2017|archive-date=May 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507085838/https://nypost.com/2017/09/18/devos-family-seeks-deregulation-of-amway-so-it-can-beat-herbalife/|url-status=live}}</ref> The amendment would have barred the Treasury Department, the Justice Department, the Small Business Administration, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the FTC, or any other agencies from using any monies to take enforcement actions against pyramid operations for the fiscal year.<ref name="Gingerich2017">{{cite news|last1=Gingerich|first1=Jon|title=Pyramid Scheme Protection Law Pits Legal Group Against Multilevel Marketers|url=http://www.odwyerpr.com/story/public/9601/2017-10-20/pyramid-scheme-protection-law-pits-legal-group-against-multilevel-marketers.html|access-date=6 May 2018|work=O'Dwyer's: The Inside News of PR & Marketing Communications|date=20 October 2017|archive-date=May 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507085633/http://www.odwyerpr.com/story/public/9601/2017-10-20/pyramid-scheme-protection-law-pits-legal-group-against-multilevel-marketers.html|url-status=live}}</ref> It also adopted provisions from H.R. 3409, the so-called "Anti-Pyramid Scheme Promotion Act of 2016",<ref name="NCL2018">{{cite news|last1=NCL Communications|title=Public interest groups' letter to Congress in opposition of Moolenaar pyramid scheme rider|url=http://www.nclnet.org/congress_moolenaar_letter|access-date=6 May 2018|publisher=[[National Consumers League]]|date=March 2018|archive-date=May 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507153302/http://www.nclnet.org/congress_moolenaar_letter|url-status=live}}</ref> which would blur the lines between legitimate MLM activity and pyramid schemes established under the original 1979 FTC case by deeming sales made to people inside the company as sales to an "ultimate user," thus erasing the key distinction made in the ruling between sales to actual consumers of a product and sales made to members of the MLM network as part of recruitment of members or to qualify for commissions.<ref name="Gingerich2017" /><ref name="NCL2018" /><ref name="VanderNatTINA">{{cite web|last1=Vander Nat|first1=Peter|title=Why This Anti-Pyramid Scheme Bill is Outrageously Wrong for Consumers|url=https://www.truthinadvertising.org/why-hr-5230-is-wrong/|publisher=[[Truth in Advertising (organization)|Truth in Advertising (TINA.org)]]|access-date=6 May 2018|date=May 23, 2016|archive-date=May 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507091118/https://www.truthinadvertising.org/why-hr-5230-is-wrong/|url-status=live}}</ref> The amendment was opposed by a coalition of consumer interest groups including [[Consumer Action]], the [[Consumer Federation of America]], [[Consumers Union]] (the publisher of ''[[Consumer Reports]]'' magazine), [[Consumer Watchdog]], the [[National Consumers League]], and the [[Public Interest Research Group|United States Public Interest Research Group]] (US PIRG),<ref name="NCL2018" /> as well as [[Truth in Advertising (organization)|Truth in Advertising (TINA.org)]] in its original incarnation.<ref name="VanderNatTINA" />