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• Editor’s Column: ’Tis the Season to Be Politically Minded

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  August 27, 2012

  I just spent a vacation in Virginia. The blaring, nonstop attacks of the candidates on each other were completely obnoxious. I couldn’t have been happier to return to Maryland, which is not considered a swing state in this election. During this season marked by expensive, negative and continuous campaign ads...

• Massachusetts League Endorses Warren in Senate Race

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  July 26, 2012

  CFPB creator gets nod from Bay State credit unions in bid for Senate seat.

• Confrontational Politics Can Be Good for All Sides

  By Claude R. Marx  |  January 16, 2012

  President Obama was mad as hell and wasn’t going to take it anymore. Nuance, subtlety and appeals to reason weren’t cutting it. So when it came to trying to break gridlock on the confirmation of a director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Obama did it the old fashioned way: He...

• Obama Vows to Keep Pushing for Cordray

  By Claude R. Marx  |  December 8, 2011

  President doesn't outline next steps; recess appointment might be possibility.

• Senate Rejects Cordray as CFPB Head

  By Claude R. Marx  |  December 8, 2011

  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau remains officially leaderless.

• House Dems Urge Senate GOP To Allow Vote On Head Of CFPB

  By Claude R. Marx  |  November 18, 2011

  House lawmakers ask Senate Minority Leader McConnell to allow a vote.

• Trade PACs Play a Waiting Game

  By Claude R. Marx  |  October 3, 2011

  Wait till next year. That’s the motto of fans whose teams have a disappointing season, and it’s also sums up the political strategies of CUNA and NAFCU.

• Warren Moving Closer to Possible Senate Run

  By Claude R. Marx  |  August 12, 2011

  Consumer Financial Protection Bureau creator considering leaving Harvard again.

• Elizabeth Warren Returning to Harvard

  By Claude R. Marx  |  July 27, 2011

  It may be one of the few times when a faculty position at Harvard Law School is a consolation prize

• Reg Overhaul's Arduous Odyssey Culminates With Senate Passage

  By Claude R. Marx  |  July 21, 2010

  The Senate last Thursday overcame strong Republican opposition and passed comprehensive regulatory overhaul legislation 60 to 39. All but one of the 58 Senate Democrats supported the measure, and all but three of the chamber's 41 Republicans opposed it.