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Richard Cordray: My Appointment Is Valid

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 01.05.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Less than a day after his controversial recess appointment, Richard Cordray on Thursday moved full steam ahead with his plans for runnin...

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Obama Has Tiny Window To Appoint Consumer Protection Chief

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 12.29.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has been pressing the Senate for months to confirm Richard Cordray as the director of the new Consumer Financial ...

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Ombudsman Office I helped create at CFPB Will Field Consumer Financial Complaints

Rep. Carolyn Maloney | Posted 12.21.2011

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Despite not having a confirmed director, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has already demonstrated how effective it can be. Only in the most polarized political environment could its goals be considered controversial.

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Senate GOP Blocks Obama Nominee

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 02.07.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked an effort to put someone in charge at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a move that preve...

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White House Targeting GOP Senators In Seven States For Their Support

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 12.05.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The White House is launching an aggressive, eleventh-hour media blitz this week aimed at pressuring Senate Republicans to confirm a stal...

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Nancy Pelosi: Scott Brown Is 'Clueless'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.09.2011

WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) laced into Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) on Sunday, calling the senator "clueless" for his de...

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Scott Brown: 'Thank God' Elizabeth Warren Didn't 'Take Her Clothes Off'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.06.2011

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Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) Thursday said he was glad that one of his Democratic opponents, consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren, didn't "take her clothe...

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Elizabeth Warren: 'The People On Wall Street Broke This Country'

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.05.2011

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In her first debate as a candidate for U.S. Senate Tuesday night, Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren declined to criticize her fellow Democratic c...

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Obama's Consumer Protection Nominee Ensnared In Political Fight

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 11.06.2011

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WASHINGTON -- It may have been mostly for show, but the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday held its nomination hearing for Richard Cordray, President...

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Elizabeth Warren Takes Next Step Toward Possible Senate Run

Posted 10.18.2011

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Elizabeth Warren, the former Obama adviser and consumer protection advocate, launched an exploratory committee Thursday, the next step toward a possib...

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Elizabeth Warren's Farewell Note: 'I Leave This Agency, But Not This Fight'

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 09.28.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Elizabeth Warren, rebuffed by the White House, today leaves the consumer agency she conceived of and created to return to academic life ...

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Wall Street Giving Big To Scott Brown Ahead Of Possible Elizabeth Warren Race

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 09.20.2011

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WASHINGTON -- As Democrats urge Elizabeth Warren, one of Wall Street's most public foes, to seek a U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts next year, the fi...

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Republicans Fight To Weaken New Consumer Protection Agency, Obama Threatens Veto

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 09.20.2011

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WASHINGTON — The House greeted the official opening Thursday of the new agency to protect consumers from financial abuse by voting to change its...

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Bungling the Bureau: The Consumer Financial Protection Mess Is Another Lost Opportunity

Adam Hanft | Posted 09.20.2011

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The Consumer Financial Protection Agency should have been a legacy of enduring value. Today should have been a day of celebration. Instead, the new bureau is just another contentious mess, another debacle that dispirits even the optimists.

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Dems Plan To Exploit GOP Bid To Gut CFPB

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.19.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Surprised Democrats think Republicans are giving them a gift for the first birth Thursday of the new consumer financial watchdog: a chan...

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Republican Opposition To Elizabeth Warren Allows White House To Duck Uncomfortable Questions

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 09.17.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Thanks to united Republican opposition to Elizabeth Warren as the permanent head of the consumer protection agency she dreamed up and sh...

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Elizabeth Warren Out, But GOP Won't Back Richard Cordray Either

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.17.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Obama may have rid himself of a high-profile confirmation fight by shunning Elizabeth Warren and picking former Ohio Attorney ...

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Republicans Vow To Block Obama's CFPB Nominee

Posted 09.17.2011

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By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama warned the financial industry Monday to stop fighting his administration's reforms to help ...

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Progressives Launch Petition To Draft Elizabeth Warren For Senate

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.17.2011

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WASHINGTON -– If progressives can’t have Elizabeth Warren as the head of the federal government’s new consumer watchdog agency, they want her to...

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Obama Nominates Richard Cordray To Head Controversial New Agency

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 09.17.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama moved Monday to get a new consumer protection bureau up and running, introducing a former Ohio attorney gene...

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Obama Picks Nominee To Lead Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Posted 09.16.2011

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This article has been updated to include statements from Elizabeth Warren and Timothy Geithner. President Barack Obama will nominate former Ohio At...

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Republicans Wage War On Financial Reform

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 09.04.2011

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WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans are greeting the one-year anniversary of President Barack Obama's financial overhaul law by trying to wea...

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Dems Duck Recess Fight With GOP As Elizabeth Warren Dangles

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 08.30.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Republicans in Congress have called out the Democrats for a fight over recess -- but there are few signs the Democrats are going to show...

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The Strongest Progressive In The Room

prospect.org | Posted 08.10.2011

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Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard law professor serving as temporary head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), must wish she had a clone....

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McConnell: Opposition To Elizabeth Warren 'Not Sexist,' GOP Will Block 'Any Nominee'

The Washington Post | Ylan Q. Mui | Posted 08.10.2011

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But an aide to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday that the lawmaker stands by his vow to block any candidate. Late last mont...

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