‘Unaccountable’ CFPB Makes 14 Appearances Before Congress in a Year

Conservatives call the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ‘unaccountable,’ but it’s been before Congress 14 times in a year.

Gary Rivlin

Published Feb. 15 2012 12:00AM EST

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Mitt Romney called it “the most powerful and unaccountable bureaucracy in the history of our nation.” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said more or less the same after President Obama, at the start of the year, appointed Richard Cordray as the head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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‘Unaccountable’ CFPB Makes 14 Appearances Before Congress in a Year

Conservatives call the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ‘unaccountable,’ but it’s been before Congress 14 times in a year.

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