[ABC] CONSUMER SHOWDOWN(How Obama's New Pick Affects Consumers)

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CONSUMER SHOWDOWN(How Obama's New Pick Affects Consumers)

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(OC): As the Republicans [1]turned up the heat, President Obama [2]pulled off a kind of political end run in Congress today, installing [3]former Ohio attorney general Richard Cordray as the head of the powerful new [4]consumer financial protection bureau, [5]a move that sent a jolt among Republicans.  And ABC's Cecilia Vega has more on that.  Cecilia?

CECILIA VEGA (ABC NEWS)(OC): Good evening, Diane.  And those consumer groups are hoping that one of the very first things Richard Cordray does is tackle this, [6]the credit card application form.  We have all seen them.  [7]We have all had our eyes glaze over them, that [8]miniscule print, [9]the incomprehensible language.  This new agency could change all that and [10]put it all in plain old English.

CECILIA VEGA (ABC NEWS)(VO): The Eason's nearly lost their Ohio home to [11]a predatory mortgage lender who offered to [12]make repairs on their old house, but fled, leaving them in $80,000 in debt.  With President Obama and the country's new [13]consumer watchdog czar at their dining room table today, they became [14]the poster family for everything the newagency plans to change.

CECILIA VEGA (ABC NEWS)(VO): [15]Harassment by debt collectors?  Gone.  [16]The sky high fees on supposedly free checking accounts?  Gone.  And [17]an endless paper trail of mortgage documents?  Gone?

CECILIA VEGA (ABC NEWS)(OC): What do they see right now?  What is it like?

PAMELA BANKS (CONSUMERS UNION): Well, in the mortgage area what they see right now is a lot of [18]gobbly-goo and [19]reams of paper of things that they have to review.

CECILIA VEGA (ABC NEWS)(VO): But [20]to get Richard Cordray at the helm, President Obama had to [21]go around Congress.  [22]In a blatant act of defiance, some call it [23]down-right arrogance, the President appointed a man blocked by the Senate for months, on a day when [24]the Senate halls were empty for the holiday break.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA (UNITED STATES): Now is the time to do everything we can to protect consumers, prevent financial crisis like the one that we've been through, from ever happening again.  That starts with letting Richard do his job.

CECILIA VEGA (ABC NEWS)(VO): Republicans call it [25]an unprecedented power grab over an agency that lacks accountability, [26]too much authority in the hands of one man.  And in a sign that [27]this Washington showdown will go on, on his first day on the job, Cordray [28]was called to testify before Congress.

SENATOR MITCH MCCONNELL (MINORITY LEADER): If you ask me, the American people should be getting more transparency out of this administration, not less.

CECILIA VEGA (ABC NEWS)(OC): Now, McConnell and the Republicans say the Senate is actually [29]in session and the President had no right to make this so-called [30]recess appointment.  The White House says that is all just a [31]gimmick, that senators are not working right now.  Diane, [32]setting the stage out here for yet another fight in Washington.

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(OC): Cecilia Vega reporting from the White House tonight.  Thanks, Cecilia.

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[1] 강하게 나오다

[2] 일종의 (정치적) 우회 전략을 시도하다

[3] 오하이오 주 전 검찰총장

[4] 금융 소비자 보호 기구

[5] 공화당에 평지풍파를 몰고 온 조치

[6] 신용 카드 신청 양식

[7] 우리 모두 게슴츠레하게 그 신청 양식들을 바라 본 적이 있다

[8] 작은 활자체

[9] 이해하기 어려운 용어와 표현들

[10] 그 모든 것을 쉬운 영어로 바꾸다

[11] 악덕 주택담보대출업자

[12] 그들의 오래된 집을 개수하다

[13] 소비자 금융 보호국 최고 책임자

[14] 대표격

[15] 빚 수금업자들의 횡포

[16] 수수료가 무료인 것으로 여겨지는 당좌예금에 대한 고율 수수료

[17] 지나치게 많은 주택담보대출 관련 서류들

[18]

[19] 끝없이 이어지는 서류 작성

[20] Richard Cordray를 최고 책임자로 임명하기 위해서

[21] 의회를 돌아가다/피해가다

[22] 노골적으로 거부하듯이

[23] 거만의 극치

[24] 상원이 연휴로 인해 휴회 중이었다

[25] 책임이 결여된 (정부) 기관에 대한 전례 없는 권력 장악

[26] 무소불위의 권한이 1인에게 주어지다

[27] 정계의 대립 상황

[28] 증언을 위해 의회에 소환되다

[29] 회기 중

[30] 휴회 중 임명 조치

[31] 술책

[32] 또 다른 한판 대결을 위한 무대를 마련하다

[캘리]

빈칸 [18]의 내용이 gobblede-goo아닌가요? 검색을 좀 해봤더니 '이해할 수 없는'의 뜻으로 쓰이는 용어라고 하더군뇨(출처 : 위키피디아)

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고맙습니다. ^^