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Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (left), shakes hands with Sen. Tim Johnson, South Dakota Democrat and chairman of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, after a hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. The committee held the hearing to review the first semiannual report of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

‘Dialed-down’ opposition for banking watchdog

By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Scott P. Brown, Massachusetts Republican, exhorts his supporters to re-elect him next fall during his campaign kickoff rally Thursday in Worcester, Mass. He criticized “establishment candidates” who, he said, wage class warfare by pitting one group against another and attack America's free enterprise system. (Associated Press)

Inside Politics: Brown kicks off re-election campaign

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Cordray appointment raises a raft of red flags

By C. Boyden Gray - Special to The Washington Times

President Obama visits the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Richard Cordray (right) on Jan. 6, 2012, at the CFPB's offices in Washington. (Associated Press)

Obama touts job numbers, banking pick

By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times

Inside Politics

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

President Barack Obama makes a statement at the White House after the congressional debt supercommittee failed to reach an agreement on debt reduction on Monday, Nov. 21, 2011, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

MILLER: Obama’s illegal power grab

By Emily Miller - The Washington Times

Consumer agency takes aim at mortgage servicers, payday-loan firms

By Daniel Wagner - Associated Press

President Obama, accompanied by Richard Cordray, visits a home in Cleveland on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012. In a defiant display of executive power, Mr. Obama bucked Senate Republican opposition to appoint Mr. Cordray as the nation's chief consumer watchdog. (Associated Press)

Obama defies Congress with ‘recess’ picks

By Stephen Dinan and Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Richard Cordray, assistant director of enforcement for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), listens as Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner (not pictured) speaks to the media on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011, in Washington, to encourage Congress to approve Mr. Cordray's nomination to head the CFPB. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

President ‘not giving up’ on filibustered nominee

By Tim Devaney and David Boyer - The Washington Times

Consumer nominee Richard Cordray facing filibuster

By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times

Simpler pact for credit cards gets a tryout

By Candice Choi and Julie Pace - Associated Press

Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, won his fight against debit-card fees. Now he wants banks to be more transparent when it comes to the costs associated with checking accounts. "[T]he bottom-line goal is to make sure people know what they're being charged and can determine whether it's fair," he said last week. (Associated Press)

Durbin turns his ire to checking fees

By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times

President Obama announces the nomination of former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray (right) as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Monday, July 18, 2011, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

EDITORIAL: Reject the trial-lawyer czar

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

Consumer activist Warren set to seek Brown’s Senate seat in Mass.

By David Eldridge - The Washington Times

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray has been nominated to head the new Consumer Protection Bureau. But Senate Republicans say he would have too much power. Democrats, for their part, complain of political games being played in the process.

Parties clash at hearing to vet new consumer bureau chief nominee

By Alan Fram - Associated Press

**FILE** Rep. Jeff Landry (left), Louisiana Republican, talks with an aide outside of the Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill on July 29, 2011. (Associated Press)

MILLER: Tea Party blocks Obama appointees

By Emily Miller - The Washington Times

Illustration: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

VERRET: About-face on consumer protection

By J.W. Verret - The Washington Times

Illustration: Juggling Dodd-Frank's mess by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

DUFFY: Dodd-Frank: One year later

By Rep. Sean Duffy - The Washington Times

New consumer agency directorless at start

By Daniel Wagner - Associated Press

President Obama announces the nomination of former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray (right) as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Monday, July 18, 2011, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obama appoints ex-Ohio AG to lead consumer agency

By Julie Pace - Associated Press