Distinguished law scholar Elizabeth Warren teaches contract law, bankruptcy, and commercial law at Harvard Law School. She is an outspoken critic of [...]

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Over the last few days, Connecticut Senator Dodd and Treasury Secretary Geithner have made the case that Harvard professor and Congressional Oversight Panel chairwoman Elizabeth Warren is too controversial a figure to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency. This, then, raises the question of how Washington defines "controversial." [...]

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Great post by Robert Kuttner, writing for Chelsea Green Publishing, on a missed opportunity for the Obama administration to burnish its progressive credentials and highlight its financial reform efforts by nominating Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. [...]

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With Additional Reporting From Shahien Nasiripour Two uniquely influential members of Congress announced their intention on Tuesday to push for Elizabeth Warren as the chair of the new consumer protection agency created under financial regulatory reform legislation. [...]

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On Monday, a coalition of groups fighting to reform the nation's financial system formally endorsed Harvard Law professor and bailout watchdog Elizabeth Warren to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Americans for Financial Reform, an alliance of more than 250 organizations that has spent the past year advocating for fin. reform [...]

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Notes that the idea came from law professor Elizabeth Warren, and he has talked to her about being chairperson. Will she get the job? Obama doesn't say. [...]

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The frontrunner appears to be Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard University law professor who first broached the idea of such an agency in a journal article for [...]

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Elizabeth Warren on the need to reform Wall Street culture, the pernicious influence of bank lobbies, and the debt-fueled threat to America's middle class. [...]

Send by TexasSlim

Barack Obama promised enormous change in how our government was run when he was elected president. If he doesn't nominate Warren, we'll know that Wall Street owns him. [...]

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President Obama has yet to sign the bill that will overhaul financial regulations, and already a tug of war is unfolding over whom he will tap for the highest-profile position created by the landmark legislation. At the center of this wrangling is Elizabeth Warren, an outspoken Harvard law professor who served as a key architect of the Consumer [...]

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Elizabeth Warren should be the top candidate for being the head of her brainchild, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau but she faces fierce opposition from the banking lobby. [...]

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one of Maxed Out's stars?Harvard Law School Professor and TARP overseer Elizabeth Warren?as head of the new consumer financial protection regulator. [...]

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Progressive pressure on President Obama to appoint Elizabeth Warren to head a soon-to-be-created consumer financial protection bureau has reached a fever pitch. But in a troubling sign for her supporters, the White House is remaining mum, and key senators aren't rallying to her defense. In some cases quite the opposite. [...]

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Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner this morning seemed to all but endorse Elizabeth Warren to head the new consumer agency created in the financial overhaul [...]

Send by ruby54

Yes, the President gets to hand pick another czar, which is what makes the fact that the SEIU and AFL-CIO are lobbying hard for a lefty named Elizabeth Warren so interesting. [...]

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Democratic lawmakers are lining up to back the appointment of Elizabeth Warren to head the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Sens. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) were joined by Rep. Jackie Speier, (D-Calif.) and other members on Thursday to voice their support and admiration for the Harvard professor and expert on [...]

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On Friday, David Axelrod, senior adviser to President Barack Obama, said Elizabeth Warren is "obviously a candidate" for the presidential nomination to head [...]

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Sherrod Brown would like to see Elizabeth Warren appointed as the head of the new consumer financial protection agency, and so would I. I think she would make an excellent choice. Here's one reason why. She's been holding Tim Geithner's feet to the fire with her current TARP oversight duties. [...]

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Warren Beatty with daughter Kathlyn, soon to be son Stephen, in 2004 Warren Beatty is about to have one less woman in his life his daughter. Reports state that Warren Beatty's teen daughter, Kathlyn Elizabeth Beatty, 18, is planning to undergo ? [...]

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Distinguished law scholar Elizabeth Warren teaches contract law, bankruptcy, and commercial law at Harvard Law School. She is an outspoken critic of America' [...]

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So I'm reading today's Congress Daily dispatch from National Journal, about the back-and-forth lobbying over who should head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and I get to this line, way down, about Elizabeth Warren: "Industry privately grumbles that Warren would be their least favorite candidate to head the agency." [...]

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In addition to her work on consumer protection, Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren heads the Congressional Oversight Panel that has overseen [...]

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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has expressed opposition to the possible nomination of Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to a source with knowledge of Geithner's views. [...]

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The financial reform bill will create a new consumer protection agency, and TARP watchdog, and Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren has widely been seen as [...]

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Elizabeth Warren: I would have expected the financial crisis to sweep through Wall Street like a hundred-year flood -- wiping out old business practices and changing the ecology profoundly. So far, the financial services industry has seemed to treat the crisis like a little rainfall -- inconvenient, but no significant changes needed. [...]