Link to Warren's remarks that didn't show up in my previous post.

[Cal33]

"He has also asked me to take on the job to get the new CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) started right now," said Warren. "The President and I are committed to the same vision on CFPB, and I am confident that I will have the tools I need to get the job done."

Arriving at the White House for the Friday announcement, Warren told CNN's Ed Henry that she's "very confident" she will have real power to get the new consumer protection agency set up with some teeth, based on reassuring conversations she has had with the president.

She told Henry that, unequivocally, she's fired up and ready to "get some things done" immediately.

The job gives the outspoken Warren - who also heads the Congressional Oversight Panel overseeing the $700 billion bank bailout - a unique insider's megaphone within Treasury and the White House, while sidestepping a Senate confirmation battle. Her title will be Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Treasury Secretary.
Progressives: 'Hell to pay' if Warren's not in charge

Warren envisions the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a regulatory body that will ensure consumers don't "learn about an unfair rule or practice only when it bites them way too late for them to do anything about it," she wrote.

"The new law creates a chance to put a tough cop on the beat and provide real accountability and oversight of the consumer credit market," she wrote on the Website. "The time for hiding tricks and traps in the fine print is over."

In released remarks slated for delivery later Friday, President Obama described what's in store at the new consumer bureau, which was the signature piece of the Wall Street reforms signed into law over the summer.

"Never again will folks be confused or misled by the pages of barely understandable fine print that you find in agreements for credit cards, mortgages, and student loans," Obama said. "The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will be a watchdog for the American consumer, charged with enforcing the toughest financial protections in history."

The Treasury Department has been laying the groundwork for the new consumer agency to be housed inside the Federal Reserve. Warren will report to the president and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, sources have told CNN.

This announcement does not mean that Warren will run the new consumer bureau once it's up and running. But she remains a candidate for that job as well, sources have told CNN.

The new job provides a temporary end run around the Senate, where hundreds of presidential nominees, including three up for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, await confirmation.

Warren remains controversial in Washington. Left-leaning groups adore her, are thrilled about her new gig, and are still pushing for her to run the agency.
What's so scary about Elizabeth Warren?

"Elizabeth Warren is exactly the right person to set the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection on the right course," said Lisa Donner, executive director for Americans for Financial Reform, a coalition of consumer, investor and union groups.

But her tough-love attitude toward banks and her sheer popularity among the masses make many in the banking industry nervous.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a statement opposing the president's move to make her an adviser.

"This maneuver is an affront to the pledge of transparency and consumer protection that's purported to be the focus of this new agency," said David Hirschmann, president of the chamber's center for Capital Markets Competitiveness.

Some, including Senate Banking chief Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., noted that Obama's move doesn't solve the question of who will ultimately run the agency.

"There's always been discussion about having Elizabeth involved in some way," Dodd said. "The issue still remains, who are we going to consider."
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Other candidates to run the bureau include Michael Barr, Assistant Treasury Secretary for Financial Institutions, as well as Deputy Assistant Attorney General Gene Kimmelman.

-- CNN's Ted Barrett and Ed Henry contributed to this report.

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[MineralMan]

1. Thanks for posting real information, rather than another hit piece.

I expect Elizabeth Warren to do an excellent job, and to be supported by the Obama Administration. I'm sure I won't be disappointed in those expectations, naysayers notwithstanding.

[Cal33]

2. I sure hope your belief is well placed. They are my hopes, too.

[Cal33]

3. "Naysayers" is right. There don't seem to be many "Ayesayers."

[blondeatlast]

4. I have this eerie feeling that many are hoping Warren fails...

and many of those are here on DU. :shrug:

[Cal33]

5. Some would, yes, but I don't think there are too many of them.

And it's not likely that they'd have much against Warren, but against Obama.
That does sound more like the Neocons' way of thinking than the Dems'. They
wouldn't mind bringing down our whole nation just to get at Obama.