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GOP Blocks Pick for Consumer Bureau

Republicans aren’t making President Obama’s life easy. In a long-awaited vote Thursday, the Senate blocked the president’s choice to lead his consumer watchdog agency. Former Ohio attorney general Richard Cordray was slated to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but the GOP filibustered the confirmation. They have pledged that no candidate will be confirmed unless a five-member commission replaces a director as the head of the bureau, and they want it to be subject to congressional funding approval.

Read it at Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/senate-republicans-block-cordray-as-obama-consumer-watchdog-nominee/2011/12/08/gIQA6j9BfO_blog.html

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2011/12/08/senate-blocks-obama-s-consumer-watchdog-nominee.html