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Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff and Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker on Wednesday joined the main White House pushes Senate to confirm the head of the new Agency aimed at cracking down on financial abuses.
Shurtleff is set to perform at the White House Tuesday afternoon with three other Attorneys General to argue that the Senators should confirm Richard Cordray as financial Director of the consumer protection Bureau, an agency that is created from the Wall Street reform legislation after the economic crisis of 2008.
Utah Republicans have become one of the strongest supporters of Cordray's, said that although his own concerns with the structure of the Shurtleff CFPB, he believed Cordray was very fit and well experienced to serve as Director.