Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) flexed her political muscleTuesday in response to Rep. Jeb Hensarling's announcement lateMonday he would prohibit Consumer Financial Protection BureauDirector Richard Cordray from testifying before the House FinancialServices Committee.
|Waters is the committee's Ranking Member; Hensarling, a TexasRepublican, chairs the committee.
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|Waters disagreed that the D.C. Circuit Court's January rulingthat President Barack Obama's National Labor Relations Boardappointments were unconstitutional also invalidates Cordray'sappointment.
|“It is inappropriate and unwarranted to prematurely andunilaterally conclude that the … case warrants blocking DirectorCordray from fulfilling 
his statutory obligation totestify before the Committee,” the California Democrat wrote toHensarling in a letter on Tuesday.
Banning Cordray from testifying will impede congressionaloversight of the CFPB, Waters said, and she urged Hensarling to reconsider hisposition and schedule a hearing to allow Cordray to deliver theCFPB's semi-annual congressional report.
|“If you choose to continue to ignore the law, then I am preparedto use the rules of the committee to provide the director theopportunity to give testimony before the committee,” she wrote.
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