Jasmine Farrier
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813192628
- eISBN:
- 9780813135496
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813192628.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter examines the seemingly unique post-9/11 political landscape, which also showcases the cycle of ambivalence in a very different and more condensed context. In the early months and years ...
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This chapter examines the seemingly unique post-9/11 political landscape, which also showcases the cycle of ambivalence in a very different and more condensed context. In the early months and years after the attacks, especially seen in the USA Patriot Act and the Iraq War resolution, Congress delegated extraordinary powers not only through the bills' text but also through the unorthodox speed and limited deliberations preceding their passage. Congressional rhetoric in the year after 9/11 echoed the Bush administration's argument that only it saw the nation's interest, while members who advocated the House and the Senate's traditional prerogative to review the administration's requests were branded as obstructionists or worse. Congress had its chances to question the nation's intelligence problems related to 9/11, the Iraq war, and the administration's management of the War on Terror in general during congressional reviews and confirmation hearings, but these did not result in extraordinary changes in policy or major cuts in Bush's spending requests.Less
This chapter examines the seemingly unique post-9/11 political landscape, which also showcases the cycle of ambivalence in a very different and more condensed context. In the early months and years after the attacks, especially seen in the USA Patriot Act and the Iraq War resolution, Congress delegated extraordinary powers not only through the bills' text but also through the unorthodox speed and limited deliberations preceding their passage. Congressional rhetoric in the year after 9/11 echoed the Bush administration's argument that only it saw the nation's interest, while members who advocated the House and the Senate's traditional prerogative to review the administration's requests were branded as obstructionists or worse. Congress had its chances to question the nation's intelligence problems related to 9/11, the Iraq war, and the administration's management of the War on Terror in general during congressional reviews and confirmation hearings, but these did not result in extraordinary changes in policy or major cuts in Bush's spending requests.
Richard Cordray
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780197502990
- eISBN:
- 9780197508251
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197502990.003.0014
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics, Political Economy
At the start of the Trump administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had three unfinished projects that represented years of work to protect consumers. First, the bureau had adopted a ...
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At the start of the Trump administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had three unfinished projects that represented years of work to protect consumers. First, the bureau had adopted a rule protecting consumers who increasingly use prepaid cards as a substitute for traditional bank accounts. Second, the bureau was finalizing a rule preventing financial companies from using arbitration clauses to strip consumers of their right to band together to sue a company in court. Third, the bureau was straining to finish its work on a rule reining in predatory payday loans that trap consumers in a ruinous and repeating cycle of high-cost borrowing. This chapter describes the urgent need for these rules and the fierce political battle that followed the bureau’s completion of each rule, with industry sometimes winning and sometimes losing its push to undo the rules.Less
At the start of the Trump administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had three unfinished projects that represented years of work to protect consumers. First, the bureau had adopted a rule protecting consumers who increasingly use prepaid cards as a substitute for traditional bank accounts. Second, the bureau was finalizing a rule preventing financial companies from using arbitration clauses to strip consumers of their right to band together to sue a company in court. Third, the bureau was straining to finish its work on a rule reining in predatory payday loans that trap consumers in a ruinous and repeating cycle of high-cost borrowing. This chapter describes the urgent need for these rules and the fierce political battle that followed the bureau’s completion of each rule, with industry sometimes winning and sometimes losing its push to undo the rules.
