[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 626 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 626

 To require Senate confirmation of the Inspector General of the Bureau 
       of Consumer Financial Protection, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 14, 2017

   Mr. Portman (for himself, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Heller, Mr. Isakson, Mr. 
  Barrasso, Mr. Hoeven, Ms. Collins, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Boozman, and Mr. 
   Cochran) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
    referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require Senate confirmation of the Inspector General of the Bureau 
       of Consumer Financial Protection, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Bureau of Consumer Financial 
Protection-Inspector General Reform Act of 2017'' or the ``CFPB-IG Act 
of 2017''.

SEC. 2. APPOINTMENT OF INSPECTOR GENERAL.

    The Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended--
            (1) in section 8G--
                    (A) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ``and the 
                Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection'';
                    (B) in subsection (c), by striking ``For the 
                purposes of implementing this section'' and all that 
                follows through the end of the subsection; and
                    (C) in subsection (g)(3), by striking ``and the 
                Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection''; and
            (2) in section 12--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``the Director 
                of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection;'' after 
                ``the President of the Export-Import Bank;''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``the Bureau of 
                Consumer Financial Protection,'' after ``the Export-
                Import Bank,''.
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