As Elizabeth Warren battled Joe Biden over a bankruptcy bill more than a decade ago, she confided her frustrations with the Delaware senator to a progressive ally
Warren has described the fight over the bankruptcy bill as a formative political experience.
Melissa Jacoby, a University of North Carolina law professor who served with Warren on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the 1990s, said that Biden’s “need to protect his corporate constituency may have been blocking his ability to hear the reality of the situation.” Biden has defended his vote for the bill, which passed in 2005, as a way to secure consumer protections in a bill that was likely to pass the Republican-controlled Congress anyway.
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. As vice president, Biden supported Obama’s decision to appoint Warren as a presidential aide charged with helping set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Terrell McSweeny, who was Biden’s domestic policy adviser at the time, said in an interview.outlining how the new agency would help families.After Biden administered Warren’s oath of office in 2013, he pulled her close.
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