President Barack Obama visits the new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Richard Cordray, right, at CFPB’s offices in Washington. Obama riled congressional Republicans by using a recess appointment, a rarely invoked legal tactic, to appoint Cordray, the former Ohio attorney general to run the watchdog agency.

First published in the January 06, 2012, 6:25 p.m. edition

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