Congressional Republicans have at least temporarily prevented the Obama administration from appointing Elizabeth Warren as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. There was speculation that the White House would use the recess scheduled for the Senate this week to appoint Warren to lead the CFPB, an agency she helped design. Last week, 20 Senate Republicans wrote House Speaker John Boehner, R-OH, urging him not to pass the Senate’s adjournment resolution, keeping the Senate at least nominally in session and preventing Pres. Obama from making any recess appointments. In 2007, Democrats in the Senate used...