{"id":313089,"date":"2010-02-12T17:31:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T22:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76576"},"modified":"2010-02-12T17:31:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T22:31:51","slug":"corker-forget-the-consumer-financial-protection-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/313089","title":{"rendered":"Corker: Forget the Consumer Financial Protection Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news for consumer advocates who experienced a flutter of hope this week when Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/76383\/on-finance-reform-talks-dodd-trades-shelby-for-corker\" >swapped<\/a> Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) &#8212; an opponent of creating a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/classified\/realestate\/news\/la-fi-harney2-2009aug02,0,7083818.story\" >consumer financial protection agency<\/a> &#8212; for Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) at the finance reform negotiation table: Corker today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-02-12\/corker-considers-reducing-federal-reserve-s-oversight-powers.html\" >told<\/a> Bloomberg News that he won&#8217;t support a CFPA &#8212; in any form.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhat you don\u2019t want to have in my opinion is a consumer protection agency that\u2019s free standing,\u201d Corker said. \u201cNor do you want one that is inside another entity but acts as if it\u2019s freestanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"more-76576\"><\/span>What does that leave? Corker said he was looking at ways to carve out a consumer protection unit within the new bank regulator proposed by Dodd, Bloomberg reports.<\/p>\n<p>Add the CFPA to the long list of &#8220;things Democrats want that they won&#8217;t get.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news for consumer advocates who experienced a flutter of hope this week when Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) swapped Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) &#8212; an opponent of creating a consumer financial protection agency &#8212; for Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) at the finance reform negotiation table: Corker today told Bloomberg News that he won&#8217;t support a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}