So far, Warren has met, one-on-one, with 60 members of Congress in both parties. She has also met with bank CEOs, investors, individual consumers, consumer groups, civil rights groups, labor unions, faith leaders, and other non-profit organizations and community leaders around the country. She has made a point to meet with military families who are often targeted by unscrupulous lenders, and with state attorneys general who are often first to know about \u00a0consumer complaints in their communities. She has hired key people who have impressive resumes that, happily, do not include a stint at Goldman Sachs. What she has accomplished to date is astounding.<\/p>\n

Warren continues to be a dedicated advocate of the American people, in a town basically controlled by money and special interests. \u00a0She is unique in that her focus is on American families and what is best for them. It is the lens through which she sees everything. She wants nothing less than to heal this country by protecting and educating the American consumer and reforming the financial markets that have preyed on them. She wants markets to work for the ordinary citizen as well as for the financial institutions that serve them. She wants them to work in a healthy way, where the rules are clear to all parties, the playing field is level, and consumer demand drives market innovation. Toward that end, her work on putting together the CFPB is important, inspiring, and deeply moving.<\/p>\n

My hope is that she becomes the new head of the agency, and barring that, that the blueprint she has put into place is actually realized. If it is, Warren will be responsible for restoring sanity to our consumer financial markets, and to the country as a whole. No small accomplishment, as we continue, years later, to suffer the consequences of the last financial meltdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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