Add your name in support of Elizabeth Warren:
UPDATE: Over 350,000 people signed our letter urging President Obama to give a recess appointment to Elizabeth Warren.
Republicans are threatening to block ANY appointment to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Join top progressive voices on a letter urging President Obama to give a "recess appointment" to Elizabeth Warren -- add your name on the right!
President Obama,
Elizabeth Warren has proven that she is willing to stand up to Wall Street on behalf of consumers.
Warren conceived the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in response to the extraordinary abuses by Wall Street over the last decade that victimized consumers and nearly collapsed our economy. She has set up the new bureau with competence and dignity – and is the single best choice to permanently lead it.
When Republican senators threatened to oppose any consumer protection nomination unless the bureau was made less effective, Rep. Barney Frank rightly called this “the worst abuse of the confirmation process I've ever seen” and added, “What it clearly says is that the president will have to make a recess appointment.”
We agree.
You did Americans proud by appointing Elizabeth Warren to set up this new Wall Street accountability bureau, Americans need her to lead it, and we urge you to give her a recess appointment.
Sincerely,
(add your name on the right)
Adam Green and Stephanie Taylor, Co-Founders, Progressive Change Campaign Committee
Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Professor of Law
Lawrence Mishel, President, Economic Policy Institute
Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
George Lakoff, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Rep. Carolyn Maloney
Ashwin Madia, Iraq War Veteran, Interim Chair, VoteVets.org
Jim Dean, Chair, Democracy for America
Justin Ruben, Executive Director of MoveOn.org
Sam Blair, Network Director, Main Street Alliance
Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director, Campaign for Community Change
Jorge Mursuli, President and CEO, Democracia Inc.
Michael Brune, Executive Director, Sierra Club
Roger Hickey and Robert Borosage, Co-Directors, Campaign for America's Future
Michael Kieschnick, President, CREDO Action
Howard Greene, former Citibank Retail Bank - Country Head of Korea, Spain & Canada
Edward D. Weinberger, Financial Risk Manager, President, Weinberger Post-Quantitative, Inc.
Tania I. Arias, V.P., The Corcoran Group
Philip Richardson, Managing Member, Corporate Financial Architects, LLC
Mike Lipkin, Columbia U Financial Engineering (IEOR) and Katama Trading, LLC
Jack Fox, CEO, Amexlab, SA
Howard Greene, former Citibank Retail Bank Country Head of Korea, Spain & Canada
Justin Brannan, President, Bay Ridge Democrats and former Bear Stearns employee(add your name on the right)