Union Bosses Applaud Obama’s Unconstitutional Appointments to Union-Controlled NLRB

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  January 4th at 11:30 PM  | 

On Wednesday afternoon, the current President of the United States did what may be described as an unconstitutional end run around the United States Senate by “recess appointing” three nominees to the National Labor Relations Board (as well as to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) even though the Senate is not in recess. Notwithstanding the CFPB appointment, Obama’s seating of the three NLRB appointees—two of whom are | Read More »

Richard Cordray, The Filibuster And The CFPB

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  December 7th at 12:30 PM  | 

Senate filibusters over nominations often have more to do with policy issues than the qualifications of a nominee.  That’s the case now with the nomination of former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to be the first Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).  Much has been written about Cordray’s history as a liberal activist, yet the real motivation behind the Republican filibuster is an effort to protect consumers from | Read More »

Sen. Richard Shelby on Why He’s Blocking the New Consumer Czar’s Confirmation

By: Robert Bluey (Diary)  |  October 13th at 03:00 PM  | 

Richard Cordray, President Obama’s pick to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, won approval from the Senate Banking Committee last week on a party-line vote. His confirmation to run the new agency faces fierce opposition from Republicans, who have vowed to block Senate approval until reforms are made to the agency. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) is leading those calls for reform. As the ranking Republican on the | Read More »

Richard Cordray and Over-Regulation

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  October 6th at 10:00 AM  | 

A vote is scheduled today on the nomination of Richard Cordray to be the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in the Senate Banking Committee.  This nomination battle is a proxy fight over Dodd-Frank, also known as the “Wall Street Reform Bill,” and regulatory excess.  Expect Republicans to fight the Cordray confirmation as a means to slow a regulatory behemoth that imposes a | Read More »

Liberals Continue Push for Job-Killing Agency and Regulations

By: Brian Darling (Diary)  |  September 10th at 09:00 AM  | 

Last year, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) sent the President a letter raising concerns about 191 pending regulations that costs American business billions of dollars a year.   The President ignored the letter, so Speaker Boehner sent him another one.  The potential cost of these Obama regulations will be devastating to an already sputtering economy and constitute a massive hidden tax on all Americans. The only way for Senators to stop regulations | Read More »

Elizabeth Warren (Who?) CFPB nomination on indefinite hiatus.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 28th at 04:32 PM  | 

The Who? in the title reflects the fact that Elizabeth Warren is more or less unknown outside of Activist Left circles, where she is generally considered to be a secular saint*. Warren would also be the first head of the “Consumer Financial Protection Bureau” (CFPB) mandated by Dodd-Frank, except for the minor detail that the last thing we need right now is yet another regulatory | Read More »

THE RETURN OF ELIZABETH WARREN!!!!!

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 21st at 07:00 PM  | 

Yes, yes, I know: who? I invite the reader to go back to an understated post of mine from September 2010 entitled “Elizabeth Warren will rise from the sea to destroy us all!“: essentially, it was being argued by the Left that appointing this woman to be the first head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) would save the House of Representatives for the | Read More »

Czarina Elizabeth – it’s not just the confirmation end run we should worry about

By: Curt Levey (Diary)  |  September 18th at 07:06 AM  | 

Criticism of President Obama’s appointment of Elizabeth Warren to oversee the establishment of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) – the Dodd-Frank Act’s contribution to growing the federal bureaucracy – has focused on Obama’s end-run around the Senate confirmation process.  By making Warren the White House czar for the CFPB instead of the agency’s director, Obama allows her to “effectively run the agency” (quoting the | Read More »

Elizabeth Warren will rise from the sea to destroy us all!

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 10th at 09:00 AM  | 

Last month I implied that one of the signs of DOOM in November would be an increased number of convoluted theories about how to ensure Democratic dominance. Ben Domenech over at The New Ledger has links to the latest one, which is apparently resting on the core assumption that two years of Democratic disillusionment with an administration that is excellent at betrayal, yet incompetent at | Read More »