Jeb Hensarling actually said...

Now that Mick Mulvaney is acting director, I still maintain that the CFPB is the most powerful and unaccountable agency in the history of th...

I maintained it was perhaps the single most powerful and unaccountable agency in the history of the republic.

The CFPB is unaccountable to Congress because it determines its own funding stream.

So powerful is the CFPB director that he alone has been granted the unprecedented power to declare any mortgage, credit card, or bank accoun...