CFPB, Federal Agencies, State Agencies, and Attorneys General
CFPB Director Richard Cordray yesterday sent a letter to President Trump asking him to uphold the Bureau’s arbitration rule even though the Senate recently joined the House in authorizing a repeal of the rule under the Congressional Review Act.
Director Cordray’s letter states that without the arbitration rule, military service members will “get cheated out of their hard-earned money and be left helpless to fight back.” … Continue Reading
In his more than one hour nationwide address last night to a joint session of Congress, President Trump discussed a broad range of topics: repeal of Obamacare, tax relief, immigration, rebuilding the Country’s infrastructure, strengthening the military, foreign trade. All of these topics, and others mentioned by him, were important campaign issues for Trump. … Continue Reading
As part of his 100-day action plan, the President promised to institute a regulatory moratorium by requiring that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated. On January 30, 2017, the President signed an executive order that purported to accomplish this goal by requiring agencies to “identify” two rules to be revoked for every new rule they propose, and to find ways to offset costs of new rules. … Continue Reading
