by Jeff Sovern Here (behind paywall). Excerpt: Exactly how President-elect Donald Trump intends to get rid of Cordray is unclear. Under the Dodd-Frank Act, Cordray can only be fired "for cause," and some speculate that the Trump administration is already building a case against the CFPB chief. One source with knowledge of the situation told […]
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Here. Excerpt: Any effort to discharge Cordray would be illegal — and it might even precipitate something close to a constitutional crisis. * * * Both Republican and Democratic presidents have not loved the idea of independent agencies, operating outside of their daily control. But in 1935,[in the Humphries Exec case], the Supreme Court unanimously agreed […]
Here. Excerpt: Trump is expected to almost immediately dismiss Richard Cordray, who has been the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) since its creation in 2011. * * * "Consumer protection is important to a well-functioning financial marketplace," Neugebauer wrote in one of his arguments for a new CFPB structure. But "this protection […]
Here. Excerpt: It’s also possible that Trump and Cordray may yet find common ground. * * * The Trump-Pence transition team, while generally tagging the Dodd-Frank Act as a brake on economic growth, has said nothing specific about the CFPB or its director. And although the conventional wisdom is that there’s little common ground between […]
Politico interviewed him here. Excerpt: There will be some areas that will be improved but fundamentally you are going to look at a very similar piece of legislation that is going to replace bailouts with bankruptcy, that's going to give working Americans greater opportunities when it comes to their mortgages, their credit cards and achieving […]
From HuffPo. Excerpt: Trump met with former Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas) on Wednesday and is considering Neugebauer to run the CFPB, Trump spokesman Sean Spicer confirmed on a Thursday call with reporters. A source close to the transition team told HuffPost that Neugebauer has yet to be offered the job, but that no other candidates […]
Here. Excerpt: House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, a Dallas Republican, has griped that the agency is “the single most powerful and least accountable federal agency in all of Washington.” He has pushed for the agency to be led by a bipartisan commission, rather than a single director. Neugebauer has endorsed that proposition, filing […]
In November, we linked to Aditya Bamzai's blog post at Notice and Comment arguing that President-Elect Trump could fire CFPB Director Cordray on the first day of his presidency. Brianne Gorod, Chief Counsel at the Constitutional Accountability Center, has replied on Notice and Comment in a post titled Why the CFPB Director Shouldn’t Be Going Anywhere.
Here. Quoting from the Bureau's release: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) report released today found that over one-in-four consumers contacted by debt collectors felt threatened. The report was drawn from the first-ever national survey of consumer experiences with debt collectors. Over 40 percent of consumers who said they were approached about a debt in collection […]