aggressively talking about what we ve accomplished. over the course of the next year, i think you ll continue to see significant action. we ve got climate standards, first-ever climate standards to protect this country. we ve got international climate negotiations taking place for the first time. china is submitting to standards. these are all executive actions, not congressional but he was very clear he really does want to work with congress. he wants to find common ground on some of the things we can agree to. yeah, kind of. he said trade, trade measurements. trade is important. he was issuing veto like, if you dry to come after the wall street reform bill, i will veto it and you cannot override my veto. he all but said he would veto keystone. not totally sure on that one. what he said today about keystone, about how this was not going to create very many jobs
afghanistan to tell you about. general john allen, the is now strongly condemning some photos that will be appearing in the los angeles times at 8:00 a.m. eastern time and those photos depict u.s. troops posing with the bodies of suicide bombers in afghanistan. the incident which took place back in 2010 represents a serious error in judgment by several soldiers who acted out of ignorance and unfamiliarity with u.s. army values. nick, we haven t seen the photos yet. what exactly are they supposed to show us? apologizing for the contents of these pictures ahead of their publication by los angeles times expected later on today. they issued a statement in which they condemn the images which apparently show the bodies of dead afghan insurgents who died in suicide attacks. i mean apparently taken, according to issa a in 2010 but only now being leaked to the press. let me read to soyou some of th statement. the action of the photographs do not represent the policies and the
his decision to run that agency had been hung up in the senate since july. not because senate republicans don t like mr. cordray, but because they don t like the wall street reform bill that gave birth to that agency and they do not like the idea of that new agency. keeping an eye on banks and credit card companies and others that earned a reputation for screwing over consumers with their financial products. republicans in the senate would not allow anybody to be confirmed at that agency in protest of the agencies existence. and so the president has now used a recess appointment to get around senate republicans. senate republicans and other republicans in congress today were angry that president obama did this. for democrats, this frankly was a day that they had been hoping for and this fight whether anybody should be overseeing the banks, that is a fight that many democrats had been hoping for beyond those involved.
board and that board will have enough money to be able to have a quorum so it will be able to function. the president appointing his nominee, richard cordray, to lead the consumer financial protection bureau. because that s the agency that had been championed by liz wet warren. mr. cordray had been her deputy in washington before elizabeth warren decided to run for senate against scott brown in massachusetts. his decision to run that agency had been hung up in the senate since july. not because senate republicans don t like mr. cordray, but because they don t like the wall street reform bill that gave birth to that agency and they do not like the idea of that new agency. keeping an eye on banks and credit card companies and others that earned a reputation for screwing over consumers with their financial products. republicans in the senate would not allow anybody to be confirmed at that agency in protest of the agencies existence.
agreement between the parties that if you re in pro forma session, you don t do recess appointments. the fact is, they re not really doing anything up in the senate right now. the pro forma thing is largely just a ceremonial to try and prevent something like this and the president appearing with richard cordray in ohio is basically saying, look, he s waited many months to get this nomination through. it s an outgrowth of the dodd-frank wall street reform bill. and it s part of the president s we can t wait campaign. he wants to get moving on this. and i have to say, we spoke to a former bush administration official earlier today who said look, president obama has the power to do this. he s not a president of my party and the appointments he s making are there is a good chance that s not appointments i would like to see made. but on the law, it s a difficult question, but i think he s got the better side of the argument in this one. the other part that s annoying republicans is th