Naked water carrying! Elizabeth Warren says the Senate Dems' Consumer Finance Protection Agency must not be further watered down, and yet, the Republicans put out this industry wet dream they call 'consumer protection!' Emphasis mine.
Consumer protection. Republicans want to constrain the scope and reach of the proposed Consumer Finance Protection bureau. They floated a new proposal Wednesday to relegate consumer protection duties to a division of the FDIC and limit its oversight to "large non-bank mortgage originators" (read:
not the commercial banks, credit card companies, pay-day lenders and other institutions Democrats would like to see under the bureau's power.)http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/05/05/today-in-financial-reform-not-much/#more-25865%23ixzz0n9RSH5iV