Dodd Questions Elizabeth Warren's Management Experience -- A Concern He's Never Raised Before

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/26/dodd-elizabeth-warren_n_694648.html

In questioning Elizabeth Warren's candidacy to lead a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd has repeatedly asked whether Warren possesses the appropriate management experience to lead a large federal bureaucracy.

But it's the first time Chairman Dodd has publicly raised such an issue when it came to evaluating presidential nominees to agency positions under the banking committee's purview.

A review of transcripts from past confirmation hearings shows that Dodd has never questioned the management experience of nominees to head federal agencies his committee oversees. The heads of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Housing Administration, the Export-Import Bank and the National Credit Union Administration all survived hearings under Dodd's chairmanship without him once asking a question about the experience needed to guide their respective agencies.

Nor did Dodd raise any management questions when prospective bank regulators came before his committee -- even when the regulators did not have significant management experience. In the two years prior to his assuming the chairmanship in 2007, the heads of the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of Thrift Supervision, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and a prior chief of the SEC all came before his committee. Each time, Dodd declined to ask about their experience running bureaucracies, a review of transcripts shows.

In fact, Dodd didn't even show up for two of those hearings.

[JerseygirlCT]

1. Why in the world would he do this?

I really don't understand.

[walldude]

5. Because she is dangerous....

She would be one of the only appointees to a consumer protection panel that is actually there to protect consumers. She's smarter than they are and she's honest, and so, they are afraid of her.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Where are all the Dodd supporters?

:shrug:

[mike r]

3. The meaning is clear

The fix is in.

[gkhouston]

4. Wow, maybe she's got a shot at getting this gig after all. n/t

[mikelgb]

6. Fuck Lame Duck Dodd

I am ashamed to say that I considered him in my top 3 for the nomination

[bobbolink]

8. We live and learn. Sometimes it stings.

[Wilms]

7. What disppointment that guy is. n/t