Elizabeth Warren Wins Senate Banking Committee Seat: Sources

[WilliamPitt]

Source: The Huffington Post

Nearly two years after Wall Street waged a successful campaign to keep consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren from running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the incoming senator will be tapped to serve on the Banking Committee, according to four sources familiar with the situation. It's a victory for progressives who battled to win her a seat on the panel that oversees the implementation of Dodd-Frank and other banking regulations.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/04/elizabeth-warren-banking-committee_n_2236898.html?1354631812

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Woo hoo!!!

[Panasonic]

1. Yay!

I knew she would get into it, and start kicking ass and taking names...

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Hot damn!

[dixiegrrrrl]

71. Hot f'ing damn, you betcha!!!!!

[sheshe2]

3. Yeah Yeah Yeah!!!!!!

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I voted for her!!!!

Now she can kick their collective asses from an even more powerful position!

Game on.

Score:
Repubs: 0
Dems: +1,000 *********************************

We win you lose!

[freshwest]

50. +1,000 to what you said!

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

4. Harry Reid rocks! This is how you play hardball. Good for her. Great for the country!

[suffragette]

5. Very good news, indeed!

[Renew Deal]

6. Awesome!

[heaven05]

7. it's a start

show me?

[Botany]

8. She is gonna be awesome ..... the old boys club isn't going to be the same.

[sheshe2]

10. Thanks Botany great pic!

and the sign?

Love Warren.

[Cha]

62. Thanks Botany.. Elizabeth is such a sweet sweet person who

will make you accountable if you're trying to screw with consumers.

[april]

9. best news yet!!!

[plethoro]

11. This is great news. I'll say it right here: Elizabeth

Warren will be the first woman President of the United States. I won't be here when it happens so I would appreciate someone sending off a firecracker so I can see it from my next perch.

[Neoma]

60. She's going to be a wonderful one at that.

[DocMac]

61. If i'm still around i'll do it.

[plethoro]

67. Thanks, Doc Mac......................nft

dddddddd

[think]

12. Outstanding......

[iandhr]

13. CAN I SAY HELL YEAH

[LynneSin]

14. Did you see that Joe Manchin also got a seat on the committee....

He's pretty much like having another republican. Manchin is our new 'Joe Lieberman' except even further to the right.

[ReRe]

79. I agree 100%

Joe Manchin is truly a big disappointment if there ever was one. Up the you-know-what with the COAL industry. And didn't he replace & keep Robert Byrd's seat? What a dirty-rotten-shame. Yeah, if Coal has his ear, it stands to reason that big bankers will have it too.

[banned from Kos]

15. I am thankful to the President for NOT appointing Warren to the CFPB

she can do far more for consumers now.

[julian09]

56. She wouldn't have been confirmed, so Obama made recess apointment because

they would not allow to fill the job. Now that Elizabeth is in the senate, revenge will be sweet, she will push that agency, she started.

[riverbendviewgal]

16. awesome

Kick and recommend

[IDemo]

17. I can hear the sputtering and howls of outrage now

So satisfying!

[Harriety]

18. Wonderful!

[midnight]

19. Congrats Ms. Warren.... Let's re-install The Glass-Steagall Act!

[Little Star]

29. Be still my heart. Wouldn't that be wonderful!

[ReRe]

39. I second that!

[Brigid]

45. I third that!

This is great news!

[Dont call me Shirley]

65. And begin enforcing Sherman Anti-Trust Act!

[Left Coast2020]

75. With All These Acts that need to be reinstated.....

...I say bring on January and the Swearing In Cermony!!!!!!!!

[TDale313]

20. Fan-friggin'-tastic!!!

Go on, Senator Warren. Make Republicans regret for decades that they hadn't just shut up and let you run the CFPB.

[Le Taz Hot]

21. There would have been hell to pay

had they NOT put her on it.

[hedgehog]

22. Republicans: be careful what you wish for!

[deutsey]

23. Wow...color me shocked

and very happy!

[mountain grammy]

24. We are women, hear us finally roaring again!

[Helen Reddy]

32. Helen Reddy

seconds that!

[marble falls]

25. Maybe we might get some regulating into the banking industry.

[graham4anything]

26. This obviously is thanks to President Obama. He built it happening.

maybe the Warren fans can finally thank him

Without Preisdent Obama she would of course still be a Professor.

Just one more great thing President Obama has bought forth

It is called Forward Change.

and it ain't even 2013 yet

[Little Star]

27. YES!!!!!

[Tippy]

28. GREAT NEWS.....

[Mass]

30. Excellent news but

Totally unsurprising. Reid would have looked like a total idiot sold to the banking lobby if he had not done that.

[lonestarnot]

31. Woodamnwhooooooooooo!

Let it be da man!

[hamsterjill]

33. Karma! Ain't it a bitch!!!! LOL

I am so happy that Elizabeth's Warren's tremendous wisdom and talents will be used on this committee!!!

You go, girl!!!

[Third Doctor]

34. Glad to hear!

[90-percent]

35. Excellent!

My $50 Warren campaign donation was one of the best investments I ever made. I may make it into the TOP 30% some day after all!

-90% Jimmy

PS - also made a heavy investment with Alan Grayson. I expect most of those dividends to manifest in PURE ENTERTAINMENT VALUE. Glad to see Alan just recently appeared with Thom Hartmann.

[Hydra]

36. Excellent news!

I bet we'll hear the howls all the way to the west coast.

[rocktivity]

37. CUE THE VONAGE THEME!

Yay!

...and "Well, duh..."


rocktivity

[MyOpinion-2]

38. Elizabeth Warren Rock’s

Now, she can go kick some bootie…

[loyalkydem]

40. The bankers

are peeing in their pants

[abelenkpe]

41. joy! nt

[Barack_America]

42. Huzzah!

[DirkGently]

43. Oh, yeah. (nt)

[Jack Rabbit]

44. Sweeeet!

Congratulations, Senator-elect Warren.

Eat it, Diamond Jaimie. Drop dead, Pretty Boy Lloyd.

[WillyT]

46. HUGE K & R !!!

[renate]

47. what a difference this will make to the country!

I know she's just one person and not a superhero (well, she's kind of a superhero), but wow! her voice on that committee is going to be such a wonderful thing! I'm so excited!

[Uncle Joe]

48. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, WilliamPitt.

[DinahMoeHum]

49. Heh heh. Stick it up their asses, Senator!

[SunSeeker]

51. There is a God!

[Raffi Ella]

52. YES!!

[Deep13]

53. Merry Christmas, parasites. nt

[bitchkitty]

54. It's a great day to be a Democrat! Go Elizabeth! n/t

[grasswire]

77. you said it...

...and I know how long you have worked for this day of trending Democrats.

[bitchkitty]

82. I have to say, I'd support her no matter what party she is in. Love that woman! n/t

[kaspar411]

55. You Go Girl

[hrmjustin]

73. Welcome to DU!

[JimWis]

57. Great news. Wonderful..

[rhett o rick]

58. Best of luck. Stay away from small planes. nm

[indepat]

59. May Senator Warren fire a torrent, a literal plethora, of rockets up the asses of the banksters

[PlanetBev]

63. Beware of flying brain tissue

Republican skulls detonating everywhere!

[Cha]

64. The Professor from Mass with Native American Blood

Gets It!

Thanks Will

[rudycantfail]

66. Best political news in a long time

[JackBoik]

68. Go get em, Liz. Take no prisoners! nt

[BlancheSplanchnik]

69. WOO HOO is RIGHT!

[Joey Liberal]

70. She is a great addition to the Senate

The people of Mass. made a wise choice when they elected her.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

72. From the start

I thought she showed enormous class and grit in making a run for the Senate. Who cares if hers was the most expensive race? Unlike the Repubs, we got our money's worth and then some. Elizabeth will do us proud.

[BadGimp]

74. This is what Victory Feels Like!

I went out on a limb financially and donated to her campaign hoping for this day. I wish I could have done more but we all have our limits.

Congrats Senator Warren!

[calimary]

76. Wow - they're really getting it - as far as the "suck on THIS" negotiating tactic!

EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!! Makes me smile SOOOOOOO wide!!!! I am severely loving the consequences of this 2012 Election!

[Kennah]

78. Shit just got real!

[ReRe]

80. K&R

Go, Elizabeth, go!

[Hulk]

81. horray!!

The SOB's couldn't stop the little lady. Bless her soul!!

[Hutzpa]

83. If Obama IS a center right

president, Elizabeth Warren will not make the Banking Committee.

To all those wanting proof of how this president is going to govern this term, you need not look any further.

Just Sayin'