Gettys, a middle-aged man whose pants and shirt were both of an olive hue, was not perceptibly amused, and replied that the number would be up to the bureau, in Sacramento.
The committee had asked that the F.B.I. conduct the investigation into accusations of leaks of secret information by someone affiliated with the committee and, Ms. Schmelzer said, it was up to the bureau and the committee officials to develop appropriate guidelines.
It is up to the consumer bureau, however, to write permanent new rules for the entire industry.
It is up to credit bureaus to decide what kinds of payments to record, and they generally choose the ones that they think will be useful to the lenders who are their clients, said Rebecca Kuehn, assistant director of the Federal Trade Commission's division of privacy and identity protection.
To count the population, the bureau has hired 500,000 workers this year, and now is up to full strength, a spokesman for the bureau said.
So it's up to this group -- the bureau of the title -- to step in, hit pause, scramble people's brains just a little and set things back on course.
Once it is up and running and utterly overwhelmed, the bureau could easily slip toward behaving like any other faceless regulator.
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House Republicans continued their attack on Elizabeth Warren, the consumer advocate and Harvard law professor who is setting up the bureau, charging last week that the bureau — and Ms. Warren — wield draconian powers.
