{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.bluntrochester.senate.gov/news/press-releases/news-senator-blunt-rochester-questions-acting-director-vought-on-cuts-to-cfpb-impacts-on-consumer-protection/", "NEWS: Senator Blunt Rochester Questions Acting Director Vought on Cuts to CFPB, Impacts on Consumer Protection", "2026-07-16", "2026", "2026-07", "Democrat", "Senate", "DE", "Lisa Blunt Rochester", "B001303", "www.bluntrochester.senate.gov", "bluntrochester", "https://www.bluntrochester.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cThis is supposed to be a watchdog agency. People should be able to go there and find information that helps them.\u201d\n\nClick here to watch Senator Blunt Rochester\u2019s Remarks\n\nU.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, today questioned Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Russell Vought, on the Trump administration\u2019s cuts to the Bureau and potential impacts on consumers. Acting Director Vought has attempted to cut CFPB staff capacity by over 50 percent and has paused much of the Bureau\u2019s ongoing rulemaking and enforcement activity.\n\nSenator Blunt Rochester focused her questions on efforts to protect servicemembers from predatory lenders, cuts to guidance that improves background screening, and limitations to consumer protection.\n\nSenator Blunt Rochester\u2019s remarks can be found here, and a key excerpt can be found below:\n\nSenator Blunt Rochester: \u201cIs a Military Lending Act violation against an active-duty service member actual consumer harm by your definition?\u201d\n\nActing Director Vought: \u201cOf course and we prioritize it in our guidance.\u201d\n\nSenator Blunt Rochester: \u201cCan you tell me, since you\u2019ve been in the position, has the enforcement increased, decreased, or stayed the same?\u201d\n\nActing Director Vought: \u201cWell, it\u2019s specific in terms of enforcement versus supervision and how we deal with \u2014 We take it very seriously.\u201d\n\nSenator Blunt Rochester: \u201cYou say you take it seriously. It\u2019s in your humility pledge. Has it increased, decreased, or stayed the same since you\u2019ve been there?\u201d", 1, "2026-07-18T06:58:50Z", "2026-07-18T07:00:34Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.bluntrochester.senate.gov/news/press-releases/news-senator-blunt-rochester-questions-acting-director-vought-on-cuts-to-cfpb-impacts-on-consumer-protection/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4964700676500797, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}