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Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) met with Elizabeth Warren, a White House adviser helping to establish the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The second-ranking Democratic senator let the nugget drop on Twitter:

Looking forward to meeting w/@CFPB head Elizabeth Warrenâ€"need to protect consumers from the tricks & traps of Wall St.

Warren is a consumer advocate and Harvard Law School professor who is well liked by liberals. It is unclear if she will be nominated to permanently head the new agency.

Republicans have been closely monitoring her role in setting up the bureau and on Wednesday suggested she might be overstepping her bounds.