The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is a non-profit libertarian think tank founded by the political writer Fred L. Smith Jr. on March 9,1984,in Washington,D.C.,to advance principles of limited government,free enterprise,and individual liberty. CEI focuses on a number of regulatory policy issues,including business and finance,labor,technology and telecommunications,transportation,food and drug regulation,and energy and environment in which they have promoted climate change denial. Kent Lassman is the current President and CEO.
Sean Patrick Duffy is an American politician,prosecutor,lobbyist,and reality television personality who is currently a co-host of The Bottom Line on Fox Business,as well as a contributor on Fox News. A member of the Republican Party,he served as the U.S. representative for Wisconsin's 7th congressional district from 2011 to 2019. After resigning from Congress,he became a lobbyist.
The Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009 is a federal statute passed by the United States Congress and signed by U.S. President Barack Obama on May 22,2009. It is a comprehensive credit card reform legislation that aims "to establish fair and transparent practices relating to the extension of credit under an open end consumer credit plan,and for other purposes." The bill was passed with bipartisan support by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act,commonly referred to as Dodd–Frank,is a United States federal law that was enacted on July 21,2010. The law overhauled financial regulation in the aftermath of the Great Recession,and it made changes affecting all federal financial regulatory agencies and almost every part of the nation's financial services industry.
Josephine Laura Staton is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
John MichaelMulvaney is an American politician who served as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from February 2017 until March 2020,and as acting White House Chief of Staff from January 2019 until March 2020. Prior to his appointments to the Trump administration,he served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector. CFPB's jurisdiction includes banks,credit unions,securities firms,payday lenders,mortgage-servicing operations,foreclosure relief services,debt collectors,for-profit colleges,and other financial companies operating in the United States. Since its founding,the CFPB has used technology tools to monitor how financial entities used social media and algorithms to target consumers.
Hollister K. Petraeus is a retired Assistant Director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB),where she headed up the Office of Servicemember Affairs. She retired on January 12,2017. Her work at the CFPB centered around educating service members on sound financial management and protecting them against predatory lending and cons. She is the wife of retired General David Howell Petraeus.
This is a list of political appointments of current officeholders made by the 45th president of the United States,Donald Trump.
Executive Order 13771 —entitled "Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs"—was an executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on January 30,2017.
Russell Thurlow Vought,is an American former government official who was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from July 2020 to January 2021. He was previously deputy director of the OMB for part of 2018,and acting director from 2019 to 2020.
Timothy James Kelly is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and former chief counsel for national security and senior crime counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Leandra English is an American political advisor serving as an advisor to the Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services. She formerly was the Deputy Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from 2017 until her resignation in 2018. She was the plaintiff in the lawsuit English v. Trump,in which she unsuccessfully sought to have herself acknowledged as Acting Director of the CFPB.
Leandra English v. Donald Trump,et al.,No. 1:17-cv-02534,was a lawsuit before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiff,Leandra English,alleged that the defendants,Donald Trump and Mick Mulvaney,violated 12 U.S.C. §5491(b)(5)(B),a component of the Dodd–Frank Act of 2010,when President Trump appointed Mulvaney to be Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
Rohit Chopra is an American businessman who is the third director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and previous member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Prior to this,Chopra served as assistant director of the CFPB and as the agency's first Student Loan Ombudsman,an office created by the Dodd–Frank Act.
Cory Todd Wilson is an American attorney and jurist serving as a U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He was appointed by President Donald Trump in 2020. A member of the Republican Party,Wilson was previously a judge on the Mississippi Court of Appeals and a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives.
Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,591 U.S. 197 (2020) was a U.S. Supreme Court case which determined that the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB),with a single director who could only be removed from office "for cause",violated the separation of powers. Handed down on June 29,2020,the Court's 5–4 decision created a new test to determine when Congress may limit the power of the president of the United States to remove an officer of the United States from office.
Collins v. Yellen,594 U.S. ___ (2021),was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the structure of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). The case follows on the Court's prior ruling in Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,which found that the establishing structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB),with a single director who could only be removed from office "for cause",violated the separation of powers;the FHFA shares a similar structure as the CFPB. The case extends the legal challenge to the federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2008.
Kathleen Ann Kavalec is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Romania since February 2023. She is a former nominee to be the United States ambassador to Albania under President Donald Trump.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Ass'n of America,Ltd.,601 U.S. 416 (2024),was a United States Supreme Court case where the Court ruled that the funding mechanism of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB),which is allocated from the Federal Treasury budget rather that through Congressional appropriations,is constitutional under the Appropriations Clause.
