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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts) Tue Jul 9, 2013, 10:36 AM Jul 2013

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Elizabeth Warren Pressures GOP To Confirm Richard Cordray As CFPB Director

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is urging Senate Republicans to confirm Richard Cordray as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Asks for an up or down vote

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/09/elizabeth-warren-richard-cordray_n_3566189.html

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Elizabeth Warren Pressures GOP To Confirm Richard Cordray As CFPB Director (Original Post) UCmeNdc Jul 2013 OP

She takes the fight to them. I respect her for that so much... CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2013 #1

K&R for an Up or down vote on Cordray. The partisan Republican filibustering think Jul 2013 #2

I appreciate her efforts zipplewrath Jul 2013 #3

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,625 posts)

1. She takes the fight to them. I respect her for that so much...

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Tue Jul 9, 2013, 10:39 AM

Jul 2013

I really want to see Cordray confirmed.

think

(11,641 posts)

2. K&R for an Up or down vote on Cordray. The partisan Republican filibustering

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Tue Jul 9, 2013, 10:47 AM

Jul 2013

on every single issue is ethically bereft and serves only the Republican parties self interest. Not the American people's...

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)

3. I appreciate her efforts

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Tue Jul 9, 2013, 04:46 PM

Jul 2013

I do. But I also suspect there is no "pressure" here. I don't think she has any leverage to influence the GOP in any way.

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