Obama will announce this afternoon his re-nomination of Richard Cordray to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the AP is reporting. Cordray’s nomination was blocked by Senate Republicans in his first terms over their objections to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau itself, so Obama recess-appointed him to the post a year ago.
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