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Federal Drive interviews — May 3, 2012

This is the Federal Drive show blog. Here you can listen to the interviews, find more information about the guests on the show each day and links to additional ...

Federal News Network Staff

May 4, 2012 1:59 am

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This is the Federal Drive show blog. Here you can listen to the interviews, find more information about the guests on the show each day and links to additional resources.

Today’s guests:

Stuart Ishimaru — Director of Office of Minority and Women Inclusion, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Ishimaru joined the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2003. For the next four years, he says the agency suffered from flat funding. A quarter of its frontline workers in the field left. Ishimaru became the acting chairman of the commission in 2009. In the months that followed, he helped turn the agency around. Today, it is breaking new ground in the fight against discrimination. Ishimaru left the EEOC at the end of April.

Rob Barnett — Energy Analyst, Bloomberg Government

The Environmental Protection Agency is set to ban new construction of coal-fired power plants. While that may sound drastic, Bloomberg Government energy analyst Rob Barnett says that’s kind of like banning flying cars — something not likely to happen any time soon anyway. He spoke to Allen Scott, host of the new show Bloomberg Government’s Capital Impact.

Listen to the full show.

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