The Senate voted 50-48 on Thursday to confirm Rohit Chopra to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, bringing to an end a drawn-out effort to put a new director at the agency Congress established in the wake of the financial crisis more than a decade ago.
Chopra was nominated to the position Feb. 2.
The confirmation marks a return to the agency for Chopra, who oversaw the CFPB’s student loan work first as assistant director and later as the first student loan ombudsman from 2010 to 2015. It brings Chopra’s stint as a member of the Federal Trade Commission to an end.
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