New branch joining us, the s. We do not have the space force. Well have a new branch of the military, the first time in seven years and he branch will be coming on, very exciting. Because of your brave and selfless service, americans can celebrate christmas and peace and we appreciate what you do and thank you very much. To begin our call, i would like to recognize a captain from the u. S. Armys 103rd sustainment command joining us all the way from kuwait. The soldiers are supporting a wartime force of 25,000 Service Members and civilians, undertaking sustainment operations in 12 different countries. And you do an incredible job. Across the middle east, our war fighters and only with the relentless determination and unsurpassed devotion we have. They have, it is incredible, the job they do. Thank you very much and we will go back to roxana and a little while and ask a couple of questions and she will have some questions for us. We also have with us sailors above the uss sherman, destro
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Me. Appreciate it. Captioning performed by vitac we have some more thank yous. I want to thank our planner, Ivan Goldberg who made all this happen, also the great allison jafy of the great d. C. Improv. Those of you who heard the reception band, thats is madam organs band. You may have noticed on your tables mip cards. Those cards get you free into adams morgan. I want to thank cnn, my capitol hill colleagues who dealt with me dealing with this dinner and who could not be better friends and colleagues. Im so honored to work with you. Its such a privilege. Thank you to my friends, megan, megan and kristen and to my husband jason, you make everything better. Now to all of you, i have probably the deepest thanks, it has been an incredible honor. I would never have imagined reporting at the capital much less standing here with some of the greatest reporters in the world and we will continue fighting for access at the u. S. Capitol because we sure could use it. Finally, thank you of course
Director cordray, the cfpb has now been up and running for almost three years. What do you consider to be the most significant accomplishment of the bureau since 2011 and looking forward, what actions can we expect either the bureau out of the bureau over the next three months co thank you, mr. Chairman. Its a broad question. First of all, the challenge of building a federal agency from scratch has been significant. Weve had some growing pains and weve been working through those. But at the same time, weve gone from zero employees to now close to 1400 employees. People who are very dedicated to protecting consumers and seeing that they are treated fairly. They are doing marvelous work. The mortgage rules we put in place that congress put such a high priority on, had been very significant. Thats a single biggest Consumer Financial market. The enforcement activity that weve had to ensure that institutions understand that people need to be treated fairly and money will go back to peoples