On Warren: “By waiting so long, they guarantee a director-less agency for the foreseeable future”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/consumer-agency-wont-be-led-by-elizabeth-warren-source-says/2011/07/16/gIQA7figII_story.html

Consumer agency won’t be led by Elizabeth Warren, source says
By Ylan Q. Mui, Saturday, July 16, 6:06 PM

The White House has ruled out naming controversial Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren to lead the agency that she has spent the past year setting up, according to a person familiar with the matter.

President Obama is slated to nominate someone to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau early this week as it prepares to officially open for business Thursday. The administration has considered several candidates since the agency was created last year and recently looked at one of Warren’s top deputies, Raj Date, as a possibility. A spokeswoman for the CFPB declined to comment.

The decision to pass over Warren is a blow for liberals who have championed her for the job. A spokesman for Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who sponsored the financial reform legislation authorizing the bureau and is among Warren’s staunchest supporters, said he would be “ticked” by the move. In June, 89 House members sent a letter to Obama urging him to appoint Warren.

The decision is also sure to upset progressive groups that have circulated online petitions garnering hundreds of thousands of signatures drafting Warren for the position. Stephanie Taylor, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, said overlooking Warren was a “real loss.”...

of the agency.

The OTL spin is that she never wanted it, ergo, she didn't get it.

Currently on p. 3 of GD
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1501679&mesg_id=1501679


Currently on p. 4 of GD
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1500077&mesg_id=1500077


Apparently they were told to believe it.

You mean like what happened to the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming founded by Pelosi in 2006?






Source: The Guardian


Republicans kill global warming committee

Thursday 6 January 2011

Kate Sheppard for Mother Jones


The kick-off of the 112th Congress on Wednesday also marked the end of an era in the House – the demise of a committee devoted solely to climate change and energy issues. The Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming, created by Nancy Pelosi in 2006, has been shuttered under the new Republican leadership. In the final days of the committee, staffers released a report on what the committee accomplished in its brief tenure – an epitaph of sorts.

Tackling issues from the politicisation of climate science to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, the committee held 80 hearings and briefings. It played a role in shaping policy for the 2007 energy bill, the 2009 stimulus package (which included $90bn <$58bn> in energy, efficiency, and other green elements), and, of course, the 2009 climate bill (the one that never became law, of course, because the Senate didn't act on it).

The final report concludes with the question of whether the United States will respond to all the information that the committee has compiled during its lifespan on the climate and energy challenge:


Someday, our children and grandchildren will look back on the record of the Select Committee. That record will reflect a respectful and rigorous debate and an unprecedented understanding of the challenges before us. Whether or not they will see that this generation has taken the bold action required by these challenges remains to be seen.



Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/06/repub...





Change we can believe in happening apparently again and again and again......

:kick:

deserves its own field of study.