Elizabeth Warren on Thursday made her third trip this year to Capitol Hill to answer questions about her brainchild, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which begins work in a week and still has no permanent leader in place. For four hours — twice the allotted time — Warren answered questions as the de facto leader of the agency, accepting gushing praise of her work from Democratic members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and fielding critiques from Republicans about the agency’s budget, its salaries and whether it will “kill jobs.” Read full article >>