Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau gets its first director — and its full powers. President Obama gave Richard Cordray a recess appointment that Republicans cannot block….

…not just that we can’t get an appointment with a doctor unless we have (expensive) health insurance, or can’t get that crown we need on the broken tooth because it…

…on the staff meeting it holds each morning to review the medical issues of the patients on the appointment books. There was, for starters, the very existence of the meeting….

There are a lot of interpretations about President Obama’s appointment of Elizabeth Warren as an ‘assistant to the President’ to oversee the creation and development of the Consumer Protection Agency….

by Bruce Webb The Ryan Budget Roadmap was introduced in January, and then sank like a stone. But with Ryan’s appointment to the Catfood Commission it and its author have…

…page Summary, both available at the link. The Report takes on some new urgency this year because of the appointment of the President’s Deficit Commission, which really should be called…

…appointment, I asked whether it was necessary to prepare in any way. Perhaps I should fast or something? After all, I had to do that before some physicals in the…

…to an academic tax professor’s career to write about tax without at least giving nominal homage to efficiency theories. The Volcker panel, appointed by the Obama White House to think…

…Congress took $58 million from the authority in May from funds that were earmarked for Section 8, Rhea said. [link to Rhea appointment added] Good to see responsible budgeting only…

…at Mont Tremblant – and expressed his clear gratitude to President Obama for an appointment he accurately described as a privilege. Never did he adequately explain why he was the…