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Emanuel Cleaver: I was here when we--I guess the chairwoman and I are maybe the only two Members who were here when the CFPB was created…

On the recordMarch 9, 2020
I was here when we--I guess the chairwoman and I are maybe the only two Members who were here when the CFPB was created, and whether the people who were not here choose to accept it or not, there were great, great pains taken to make sure that the CFPB was not politicized, all the way down to keeping Congress from getting involved in the funding of that department.
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Emanuel Cleaver
Democratic · Missouri

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Cleaver emphasizes the importance of keeping the CFPB non-political during its creation.

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