Senators: Run Consumer Head by Us

politico.com — The three Senate Republicans who broke with their party to support President Barack Obama’s Wall Street reform plan asked Obama Thursday not to make a recess appointment for the director of a controversial consumer protection agency.

Sens. Scott Brown of Massachusetts and Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine "strongly [urged]" the President not to bypass the Senate, but to "follow regular order" in naming the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, according to the letter obtained by POLITICO.

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