Elizabeth Warren Wins The Support Of Two More Senators

Source: Huffington Post

Two more Senate Democrats climbed aboard the Elizabeth Warren bandwagon on Friday, signing on to a statement circulated by Sen. Al Franken encouraging President Obama to nominate the Harvard professor to lead the nascent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an entity she first proposed and helped shepherd through Congress.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee and the P Street Project have been urging their membership to flood Congress with calls of support for Warren. Franken's statement gives advocates something to organize around. The group is also calling on citizens to sign a petition backing her.

Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.) have now gotten behind the effort. "Elizabeth Warren has proven that she is willing to stand up to Wall Street on behalf of consumers and is the logical choice to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau," reads the statement they signed. "If appointed by President Obama, I would vote to confirm Elizabeth Warren to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau."

On Thursday, Warren met with senior staff at the White House. "The President believes that Elizabeth Warren is a champion for middle class families and consumers and she, among others, is a strong contender for this position. The President has not yet made a decision and no announcement is imminent," said White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage.


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Who may or may not be acting at the request of the WH.

(Or maybe you did not see that Kerry and Udall were the two.)

He's retiring, and needs to stay out of this.

If no confirmation hearing is scheduled, then there will be no confirmation.

and tell them to support Elizabeth Warren.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

I said I support a brilliant person like Warren to be nominated, and the protections of the American citizen to be thought of in considering who to put in that position.

alone can be a game changer. Elizabeth Warren absolutely is the strongest people's voice ever. She's a gift, an incredible advocate. Without her, there's zero credibility to CFPB. K & R

Come on Obama! Show us some forcefulness!

make money off of. Even if it means lots of bubbles and crashes and other capitalist sh**. We need Elizabeth Warren.

She is too liberal for their taste.

and Summers would fear.

She has the smarts and the grit to expose a lot of corporate hanky-panky, which could lead to bigger and better things.

Please, Mr. President, sign her up.

much, anyway. See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4485107&mesg_id=4485783