{"id":663036,"date":"2010-02-12T15:55:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T20:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76557"},"modified":"2010-02-12T15:55:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T20:55:47","slug":"gibbs-consumer-financial-protection-agency-still-%e2%80%98great-priority%e2%80%99-of-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/663036","title":{"rendered":"Gibbs: Consumer Financial Protection Agency Still \u2018Great Priority\u2019 of White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Gibbs, White House press secretary, was asked today whether the administration will insist on the creation of a separate <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124528335258125543.html\" >consumer financial protection agency<\/a> as part of the year&#8217;s plans for banking reform. His response should encourage the consumer advocates pushing for that agency.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The president still believes it is a great priority to have the independent authority to ensure that consumers in this reform are protected from the type of loans that we&#8217;ve seen happen that have led to massive foreclosure, the types of tricks with credit cards that we had seen in the past. &#8230; \u00a0So the president continues to be a very strong supporter of that function of the reform bill that we sent to Congress.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"more-76557\"><\/span>Pressed about whether it should be a standalone agency, Gibbs hedged a bit, saying it would have to have &#8220;independent authority.&#8221; The question remains: Will any Republicans &#8212; notably Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who has <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/76383\/on-finance-reform-talks-dodd-trades-shelby-for-corker\" >taken the GOP lead<\/a> on negotiations &#8212; get on board?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Gibbs, White House press secretary, was asked today whether the administration will insist on the creation of a separate consumer financial protection agency as part of the year&#8217;s plans for banking reform. His response should encourage the consumer advocates pushing for that agency. The president still believes it is a great priority to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Mu8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}