Tell Your Senators: Confirm Richard Cordray to Lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

[Bill USA]

http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=12147

President Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is expiring. Cordray has been re-nominated and is going through the confirmation process once again.

A former Ohio State Attorney General, Cordray’s history of standing up for consumers and winning against Wall Street and big banks when they try to rip off their customers makes him an excellent nominee.

But 43 Senate Republicans have threatened to filibuster Cordray’s nomination unless the consumer protection agency he heads is fundamentally weakened.

Don’t let opponents of consumer protection hold Cordray’s nomination hostage.



Tell your senators to confirm Richard Cordray — and that you support Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.)’s use of all the tools at his disposal, including rules changes, to push for important nominees if Republicans continue their obstructionist tactics.

As Senate Majority Leader, Reid has the authority to reform filibuster rules so that a 51-vote simple majority — not the 60-vote super majority now necessary — will be needed to confirm Cordray (and other nominees like the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Labor and more).

Many Republican senators claim they have no problem with Cordray.

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) – one of the 43 obstructionists – even praised Cordray during his nomination hearing earlier this year: “I think you have done a wonderful job so far in carrying out your duties.”

But, as a result of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) demented interpretation of Senate rules, this non-controversial nominee’s prospects are in peril.

McConnell’s views on the consumer protection agency are unambiguous. “If I had my way, we wouldn’t have the [Consumer Financial Protection Bureau] at all,” he recently told a crowd of Wall Street bankers.

Our communities can’t afford to let ridiculous partisan antics get in the way of meaningful safeguards for consumers.


Tell your senators: Confirm Richard Cordray.

[FarPoint]

1. Cordray always has had my support.

He is a great Ohio Democrat.

[Scuba]

2. One of mine will. The other is a teabagger of the worst strain.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. Obama claims Tom Coburn is his good friend, a wise man, his brother in Christ

and that their wives are very close as well. I remember a week when Obama chided my Democratic Senators while praising Coburn as this wonderful moral man of genius.
Coburn is part of the C Street Family and his job there at times involves brokering the hush money pay offs to the extra marital sex partners of his 'brothers in Christ' there at C Street.
Obama's deep kinship with Coburn seems worthless if Coburn always opposes his 'brother in Christ'.

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. Well, I admittedly haven't been paying attention for some time,

but Cordray's appointment STILL isn't approved? I thought this would have happened MONTHS ago!

[hedgehog]

5. This is the first I've heard of this! No wonder Obama has been spinning his wheels!

I wonder how many other agencies are still without a head!

[Bill USA]

6. Just talking about appointmants of Federal Judges the vacancies skyrocketted due to GOP war on Obama

http://www.nationaljournal.com/how-congress-and-the-white-house-eviscerate-the-judiciary-20130604


There are 81 vacancies on the federal bench, a nearly 50 percent increase since Obama took office. His predecessors fared much better.

Within the first three years of President George W. Bush's term, there was a 65 percent [font color="red"]decline[/font] in vacancies, according to the Alliance for Justice. President Clinton reduced openings by 34 percent.

Another troubling metric: The time it takes to confirm a nominee has skyrocketed, a trend that makes the federal bench less appealing to the best and brightest. Obama made 212 nominations with an average wait of 224 days until the confirmation phase, according to data compiled in November 2012 by USA Today from the White House and the Alliance for Justice.

At the same point in their tenures, Bush had nominated 225 lawyers with an average wait of 176 days, while Clinton made 237 nominations with an average lag of 98 days.
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GOP has made it a policy to oppose all agency directors if the nominees are not sufficiently fascist or imbeciles.