with the house taking of the bill on the consumer financial protection bureau we are joined by sylvan lane, finance report for the hill. the cpb was created during the obama administration. how has the trump administration attempted to change the purpose and practices of the bureau so far? >> while democrats are in kobe support of the bureau pursuing its mission at full strength, republicans and a lot of groups in the financial services industry, advocate for banks, credit unions, so on and so forth, they'll said the bureau was overstepping its mandate, was being too aggressive and was overreaching beyond its powers which they said were also way too much for any one independent agency. so when mick mulvaney became the acting director in november 2017, he started acting all that the key pulled back the bureaus oversight of the financial services industry, he started collecting less data he sought to revise and we can a lot of the rules that had been administered and released under the obama administration in the previous director richard cordray and basically followed a checklist of all the

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> with the house taking up a bill on the consumer financial protection bureau, we are joined by sylvan lane, finance reporter for the hill. the cf bp was created during the obama administration. how has the trump administration attempted to change the practices so far? >> democrats are always incredibly supportive of the bureau, republicans and a lot of groups in the financial services industry, advocates for banks and credit unions all said the bureau was overstepping its mandate and was being too aggressive and was overreaching and its powers which they said were also way too much for anyone independent agency. when mick mulvaney became the acting director of the cfbp in 2017 he started acting. he pulled back the oversight and started collecting less data. he sought to revise and weaken a lot of rules that have been released under the obama administration and the previous director and basically followed a checklist of all of the republican industry grievances with the agency in order to pull it back and make it have less of a footprint. house democrats are calling the built the consumer's

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host: our guest sill vin -- sylvan lane, read his reporting on this and other issues at thehill.com and also on twitter, @sylvanlane. >> here's a look at our primetime schedule. 9:00 p.m. eastern, the house judiciary committee meeting to hear testimony from don mcgann on the mueller investigation. mr. mcgann refused to show up at the hearing. we'll have that on c-span. at 10:00 eastern on c-span 25, look at prescription drug prices. at 8:00 p.m. on c-span3, officials from the election assistance commission look at election security ahead of 2020. >> c-span's "washington journal" live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up wednesday morning, connecticut democratic congressman jim himes will join us to talk about tensions with iran and other u.s. foreign policy challenges and then dan caldwell, of concerned veterans for america and john sole will talk about veterans issues and their collaboration on war authorization measures in congress. watch "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning. join the discussion. >> tomorrow, testimony from treasury s