Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka On Obstruction of Richard Cordray To Head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 8, 2011. Undermining the new era of Wall Street accountability is exactly what Senate Republicans intended by today’s filibuster of the nomination of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.  The vote had nothing to do with his outstanding qualifications, but with the very idea of anyone enforcing the law of the land to protect America’s families.