Category Archives: Financial Reform News

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Cantwell, Murray Back Elizabeth Warren for CFPB

Senator Cantwell and Senator Murray support Elizabeth Warren to lead the CFPB, according to this article by the Seattle Pi website. Saying its director should be “independent” and an “outsider,” Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., are backing Harvard Law bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren

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Professors Support Elizabeth Warren

141 U.S. PROFESSORS URGE PRESIDENT OBAMA TO APPOINT ELIZABETH WARREN DIRECTOR OF THE NEW BUREAU OF CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 3, 2010 – A total of 141 of America’s leading law and other professors are submitting a joint letter to President Barack

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Post Passage Lobbying Statistics

The Financial Reform and Consumer Protection bill has been signed into law, but that doesn’t mean that the big banks are slowing down their fight to prevent reforms.  Check out the latest lobbying numbers and stats, as reported in the news: “The finance, insurance and

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NewsOK: An Okie in Washington Riles Wall Street

NewsOK recently published an article about Elizabeth Warren, an Oklahoman making a stir from Washington DC to Wall Street.  Click here to read the full article. Her goal, she said, is what it has been throughout the 20 years that she’s been researching financial data,

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Newsweek: Pick Elizabeth Warren

A recent article in Newsweek advised the President to pick Elizabeth Warren to head the CFPB.  Click here to read the full article. Warren’s fierce independence is exactly what makes the control freaks in the White House uncomfortable. Their doubts about her can be traced

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Main Street Alliance: We Support Elizabeth Warren

July 29, 2010 Dear President Obama: On behalf of the Main Street Alliance, a national network of small business coalitions, we write to extend our support for the candidacy of Dr. Elizabeth Warren to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created by the recently enacted

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Jeff Sovern: Warren would protect consumers, not the banks

Jeff Sovern, a professor at St. John’s University School of Law and co-coordinator of the Consumer Law and Policy Blog, argues in favor of Elizabeth Warren to lead the CFPB.  Click here to read his full article in The Hill. But the president should not

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SEIU: Elizabeth Warren is the Right Person to Head the CFPB

The SEIU has asked President Obama to nominate Elizabeth Warren to run the CFPB.  Click here to read their full letter. They say: Warren has spent her entire career fighting for the interests of working families and supporting policies to help rebuild our middle class.

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Ann Brown in Politico: Elizabeth Warren’s Experience

Former Consumer Product Safety Commission head Ann Brown debunked claims that Elizabeth Warren lacks the “administrative experience” to run the new CFPB in a recent Politico article.  Click here to read the full article. Warren has a top-rate intellect and, expertise in consumer credit products

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Recess Coalition Events

AFR Recess Coalition Events We expect to invite the media to all events unless specified. Arkansas On-Air Thank you to Senators: During radio show on Tuesday, July 20th. Public Education Briefing: Date TBD. Organizing as a Thank You event while educating the public on the