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Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard law professor who has organized the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, will step down from her administration advisor position Monday and be replaced as de facto acting director by a top aide, the Treasury Department announced.
Raj Date, who serves as the agency's associate director of research, markets, and regulations, will become a special advisor to Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and run the bureau's daily operations until a director is confirmed.
After mulling the decision for months, President Obama last week bypassed Warren and nominated former Ohio Atty. Gen. Richard Cordray to be the agency's first director. Warren said at the time she planned to return to Harvard in time to teach in the fall semester.
Date may be the acting director for a while. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau formally opened for business Thursday, but 44 Senate Republicans have promised to block Cordray's confirmation unless the White House agrees to major changes to the bureau that would weaken its power. The House approved those changes last week, including replacing the single director with a five-member bipartisan commission.
Warren has done "an extraordinary job" setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Geithner said.
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Raj Date, who serves as the agency's associate director of research, markets, and regulations, will become a special advisor to Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and run the bureau's daily operations until a director is confirmed.
After mulling the decision for months, President Obama last week bypassed Warren and nominated former Ohio Atty. Gen. Richard Cordray to be the agency's first director. Warren said at the time she planned to return to Harvard in time to teach in the fall semester.
Date may be the acting director for a while. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau formally opened for business Thursday, but 44 Senate Republicans have promised to block Cordray's confirmation unless the White House agrees to major changes to the bureau that would weaken its power. The House approved those changes last week, including replacing the single director with a five-member bipartisan commission.
Warren has done "an extraordinary job" setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Geithner said.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/mone...-on-aug-1.html
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