Obama pushes Senate to move on confirmations
President Barack Obama urged the Senate on Thursday (January 24) to confirm without delay his appointment of Mary Jo White to head the Securities and Exchange Commission and his renomination of Richard Cordray as chief of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Obama, in announcing the staff decisions at the White House, put particular pressure on lawmakers to approve Corday, saying "there's absolutely no excuse for the Senate to wait any longer." Cordray, a former Ohio attorney general, was
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