Having their top leadership dragged before the Senate every day to answer questions. Maybe even having some of them spend some time exploring the possible permutations of the phrase ‘held in contempt of Congress.’ Because being beholden to the law is not the most onerous thing that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will ever have to do:
A federal judge forced the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to obey the same rules of discovery in civil litigation that apply to everybody else even if government officials are annoyed by them.
Judge John E. McDermott rejected a motion by CFPB. As a result, the bureau’s officials were required to submit to depositions — cross-examinations of witnesses conducted under oath but outside the courtroom — in a case filed by the bureau.
Via Instapundit. It’s always cute when a fresh, new waste of taxpayer dollars wakes up one morning to discover that it is no longer being protected by an indulgent Congress. Nobody in the GOP likes the CFPB: it was created largely so that Democrats could tell themselves brave stories about how they were the most populist populists who ever popped a list*. Scheduling the CFPB for a good kicking at regular intervals next year should prove entertaining.
Moe Lane
*Wow. That almost made sense. Also, spoiler warning: Democrats are not populists.