Elizabeth Warren Meets With Wall Street Lobbyists

Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the expenditure of TARP, Elizabeth Warren.
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Looks like Elizabeth Warren’s stepping up her campaign to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. According to the Washington Post, she met quietly last week with the Financial Services Roundtable, which fastidiously opposes both the CFPB and her nomination.

Elizabeth Warren, a top candidate to lead the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, met quietly last week with some of her sharpest critics: big bank lobbyists….

Warren and Roundtable President Steve Bartlett spoke at length in his office about the role of the new regulatory agency, which — despite the group’s objections — was included in the far-reaching financial legislation signed into law by President Obama last month.

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