Geithner Praises Warren, Hints Support for Her to Take Consumer Protection Post

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/07/geithner-praises-warren-hints-support-for-her-to-take-consumer-protection-post.html

Does the Treasury Secretary want one of his fiercest critics to helm the newly-created Bureau of Consumer Protection? In an interview on ABC News' This Week, he sounded like he does, but stopped short of endorsing her.

Host Jake Tapper asked Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner if he supported Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

"She is a enormously effective advocate for reform," Geithner replied. "Probably the most effective advocate for reform for consumers for consumer protection in the country."

"She has huge credibility and she played a decisive role in helping make the public case for reform and she was early on this, way ahead of everybody else," Geithner told Tapper.

But does the Treasury Secretary have concerns about a woman who has been so sharply critical of him in her role as independent supervisor of the $700 billion bank bailout?

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