UPDATE: Over 375,000 signed our letter urging President Obama to give a recess appointment to Elizabeth Warren.

Sen. Al Franken says: "It's a great letter -- can you add your voice?" Sign on the right.

President Obama,

Elizabeth Warren has proven that she is willing to stand up to Wall Street on behalf of consumers.

Warren conceived the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in response to the extraordinary abuses by Wall Street over the last decade that victimized consumers and nearly collapsed our economy. She has set up the new bureau with competence and dignity – and is the single best choice to permanently lead it.

When Republican senators threatened to oppose any consumer protection nomination unless the bureau was made less effective, Rep. Barney Frank rightly called this “the worst abuse of the confirmation process I've ever seen” and added, “What it clearly says is that the president will have to make a recess appointment.”

We agree.

You did Americans proud by appointing Elizabeth Warren to set up this new Wall Street accountability bureau, Americans need her to lead it, and we urge you to give her a recess appointment.

Sincerely,

(add your name on the right)

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Adam Green and Stephanie Taylor, Co-Founders, Progressive Change Campaign Committee

Rep. Carolyn Maloney

Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Professor of Law

Lawrence Mishel, President, Economic Policy Institute

Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research

George Lakoff, Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Ashwin Madia, Iraq War Veteran, Interim Chair, VoteVets.org

Jim Dean, Chair, Democracy for America

Sam Blair, Network Director, Main Street Alliance

Deepak Bhargava, Executive Director, Campaign for Community Change

Jorge Mursuli, President and CEO, Democracia Inc.

Michael Brune, Executive Director, Sierra Club

Roger Hickey and Robert Borosage, Co-Directors, Campaign for America's Future

Michael Kieschnick, President, CREDO Action

Howard Greene, former Citibank Retail Bank - Country Head of Korea, Spain & Canada

Edward D. Weinberger, Financial Risk Manager, President, Weinberger Post-Quantitative, Inc.

Tania I. Arias, V.P., The Corcoran Group

Philip Richardson, Managing Member, Corporate Financial Architects, LLC

Mike Lipkin, Columbia U Financial Engineering (IEOR) and Katama Trading, LLC

Jack Fox, CEO, Amexlab, SA

Howard Greene, former Citibank Retail Bank Country Head of Korea, Spain & Canada

Justin Brannan, President, Bay Ridge Democrats and former Bear Stearns employee

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