Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray testified to Congress on consumer credit access.

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Richard Cordray, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, announces new rules for mortgage servicers.

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The House Committee on Financial Services conducts a hearing on the semi-annual report on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Richard Cordray, Director of the CFPB, testifies at the hearing.

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President Obama visited and made remarks at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, DC.  Richard Cordray, the bureau’s first director, was sworn in recently after President Obama placed him in office through a recess appointment after Senate Republicans refused an up or down vote over questions on the agency’s organization.

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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray lays out his vision for the agency in remarks at the Brookings Institution.

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President Obama announced during a speech in Ohio that he will make a recess appointment and place Richard Cordray in the position of Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Last month, Senate Republicans did not allow his nomination to move forward.

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This is a look at President Eisenhower’s views and actions in the area of civil rights, including the desegregation of the armed forces, his appointments of pro-civil rights Supreme Court justices and the dispatching of the 101st Airborne division to assist in the integration of Little Rock High School in Arkansas.  This discussion was part of a conference titled, “Ike Reconsidered: Lessons from the Eisenhower Legacy for the 21st Century,” co-hosted by Hunter College, City University of New York, the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute & the Eisenhower Foundation.

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Metropolitan State University professor Douglas Rossinow teaches a class on the Iran-Contra affair, which took place in the mid-1980s during the Reagan Administration. The Iran-Contra affair stems from Reagan administration officials funding the Contras - who were fighting against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua - with money from the sale of arms to Iran. The arms were being sold to Iran in the hope of gaining the release of American hostages held in Lebanon - hence the reason the affair is sometimes called as the “arm-for-hostages” scandal. Metropolitan State University is in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Mary Elizabeth Bowser was a former slave who became a Union spy in the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. She was part of a pro-Union underground spy ring run by Elizabeth Van Lew, the daughter of a prominent Richmond citizen. In this program, authors Elizabeth Varon and Lois Leveen talk about the life and story of Ms. Bowser, as well as her relationship with Ms. Van Lew. The two authors also discuss how they wrote and researched their books. The event took place at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond.

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Saul Cornell discusses his book "A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America."  He explores the opposing sides of the gun control debate, arguing that both base their opinions on a flawed understanding of the second amendment.

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