The Impact of the 2020 Election on Labor & Employment Law
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The CFPB currently has a job posting for the position of Associate Director for Research, Markets, and Regulations....more
Somewhat overshadowed by the Supreme Court’s Seila Law decision and other CFPB-related developments was the CFPB’s announcement on Tuesday of personnel changes....more
According to Bloomberg Law, beginning on March 9, Leonard Chanin will serve as part-time CFPB Acting Deputy Director. Brian Johnson, the CFPB’s current Deputy Director, is scheduled to leave the agency on March 6....more
On March 28, 2019, the House Financial Services Committee passed H.R. 1500, the Consumers First Act, by a 34-26 vote. The bill is intended to reverse various actions taken by Mick Mulvaney during his tenure as CFPB Acting...more
House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters recently introduced the "Consumers First Act," H.R. 1500, a modified version of a bill she introduced in the last session of Congress when Mick Mulvaney was still...more
Thursday afternoon, by a vote of 50-49, the Senate confirmed Kathy Kraninger as CFPB Director. Pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act, the CFPB Director has a five-year term. ...more
Yesterday afternoon the Senate voted 50 – 49 to invoke cloture and proceed to debate and a final vote on the nomination of Kathy Kraninger to be the next Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (“BCFP”). ...more
Politico has reported that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell filed cloture this afternoon on President Trump’s nomination of Kathy Kraninger to serve as CFPB Director. ...more
A number of housing and financial industry trade groups, including the Mortgage Bankers Association and Real Estate Services Providers Council, Inc. (RESPRO®), recently sent a letter to Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and...more
By a 13 to 12 party-line vote today, the Senate Banking Committee approved President Trump’s nomination of Kathy Kraninger to serve as CFPB Director. When the full Senate will consider her nomination and whether it will be...more
According to media sources, the Senate Banking Committee has rescheduled a vote on President Trump’s nomination of Kathy Kraninger to serve as CFPB Director for August 23. There is little doubt that the Committee will approve...more
Thursday’s Senate confirmation hearing for Kathy Kraninger, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”), produced a number of testy exchanges with Democrats but no obvious obstacles to...more
In response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Lucia v. SEC, President Trump has issued an executive order that changes the process used by federal agencies for administrative law judges (ALJs)....more
CFPB Acting Director Mick Mulvaney announced yesterday that he has selected Brian Johnson, who currently serves as CFPB Principal Policy Director, to serve as Acting Deputy Director. Before joining the CFPB, Mr. Johnson...more
On July 6, 2018, Leandra English, through her attorney via Twitter, announced she would be resigning from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”)....more
The future of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB) remains uncertain, as the nomination of a permanent director turned controversial, and a New York federal court ruled its structure unconstitutional. Will...more
Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown have sent a letter to Kathy Kraninger, President Trump’s nominee for CFPB Director, seeking documents and other information about Ms. Kraninger’s role in the development...more
According to numerous media sources, the White House announced on Friday, June 16, that President Trump plans to nominate Kathy Kraninger as CFPB Director later this week. ...more
The end of the 210-day period during which Mick Mulvaney can serve as CFPB Acting Director under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act (FVRA) in the absence of President Trump’s nomination of a permanent Director is drawing...more
The battle for control of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) raged on last Thursday during oral argument before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in English v. Trump....more
On April 12, 2018, Mick Mulvaney, the Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) testified before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs regarding the Bureau’s Semi-Annual Report...more
In what can only be deemed a major reversal, the White House has reportedly ordered its economic adviser and trade representative to study rejoining the Trans Pacific Partnership, just a year after yanking the US out of deal...more
On April 12, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held oral argument on the appeal brought by Leandra English, CFPB Deputy Director, of the district court’s denial of her application...more
The D.C. Circuit will live stream the oral argument scheduled for April 12 in Leandra English’s appeal in her action seeking a declaration that she, rather than Mick Mulvaney, is the lawful CFPB Acting Director. Ms. English...more
The D.C. Circuit has released the names of the judges who will hear the oral argument scheduled for April 12 in Leandra English’s appeal in her action seeking a declaration that she, rather than Mick Mulvaney, is the lawful...more