DENNIS A. Ross 1 wasuneran, 9¢ SESE Congress ofthe Boited States Lee House of Representatives “ogovnmauent Rarenn 436 Canon Building Washington, DC 20515 December 6, 2017 een Acting Director Mick Mulvaney Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 1700 G Street NW Washington, DC 20552 krvexypennienose.nouse.cov Dear Director Mulvaney: Congratulations on your recent appointment to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. 1 am confident your efforts to make the agency more accountable and transparent will benefit the everyday Americans who suffer under CFPB’s onerous regulations. Unfortunately, it seems that some staff at CFPB feel differently. According to a news report from the New York Times (“Consumer Bureau's New Leader Steers a Sudden Reversal,” Dec. 5), a “small group” of career employees at the Consumer Finaneial Protection Bureau called “Dumbledore’s Army” has established itself as a “secret resistance force" in order to undermine the efforts of both Congress and President Trump to restore proper authority over the Bureau. While I am concemed about a group of govemment employees engaging in fantasy play on the public dime, I'm even more concerned about the CFPB’s ongoing culture of lawlessness. Such an effort would be laughable if it didn’t offend the core principles of our great nation. ‘Americans expect publie servants and federal agencies to abide by the rule of law rather than be enchanted with the authority they have summoned out of thin air. As public servants, CFPB employees must act in a good-faith, transparent manner, rather than attempt to hide their work in some cloak of invisibility. Such measures of accountability will help us ensure that the CFPB will engage in regulation based on established law, rather than conjured authority. Like you, I believe that a flourishing consumer market requires the empowerment of everyday ‘Americans to choose the financial instruments that best suit their needs, instead of having some wizard pick and choose winners and losers out of a magical sorting hat. Mr, Director, I want to assure you that you have my full support as you work to establish order at the Bureau, and I look forward to continuing to work together. Sincerely, Dennis A, Ross ‘Member of Congress