Richard Cordray

HARRODSBURG — Rand Paul didn’t make the meal — Dunn’s BBQ did — but the upstart U.S. senator certainly had folks eating out of his hands Thursday at a Mercer County Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Unlike when he visited...

For more than four millennia the arch has been a mainstay of stone and masonry construction.  Roman period architecture was noted for its extensive use of the arch and it has remained popular throughout the centuries.   The purpose of an arch is to...

President Obama circumvented Congress when he appointed Richard Cordray as director of a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Congress was in session. This was not a recess appointment. There is a bill to increase the debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion....

President Barack Obama's recess appointment to direct the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Richard Cordray, wasted no time in announcing the watchdog agency's "nonbank supervision program." Bringing nonbank mortgage lenders more fully and...

Republicans lament the action taken by our president to make a recess appointment — finally — to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a valuable government agency. I do not know the likely outcome of any challenge to this action,...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a man whose political success is largely attributable to the aura of befuddled incompetence he uses to disarm his adversaries, was a failed Watergate baby. In 1974, a slew of often sanctimonious and very liberal...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is accusing President Obama of acting "arrogantly" in his recent recess appointment of Richard Cordray as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("Obama picks consumer chief," Jan 5). I would say that...

President Barack Obama owes congressional Republicans at least a thank-you card for their efforts to block Richard Cordray as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. That GOP leaders continue to howl over Mr. Obama's decision on Wednesday to...

The following are the remarks of President Barack Obama, as prepared for delivery. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans: Last month, I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is pressing congressional Republicans to approve his pick to head a new consumer watchdog office, promising he won't back down on his effort to protect middle-class Americans from deceptive business practices...