More than 1,000 nurses from National Nurses United (NNU) are in San Francisco for the union’s annual convention that kicks off tonight with an address by Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown (D). The convention runs through Friday.

Last week, we told you how 44 U.S. senators are fighting to keep consumer and working family advocate Elizabeth Warren out of the top spot of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), created by last year’s landmark Wall Street reform legislation.

There are 44 members of the United States Senate who don’t want consumer and working family advocate Elizabeth Warren to run the new federal agency designed to protect consumers and working families from the kind of Wall Street and Big Bank abuses last year’s landmark Wall Street reform legislation outlawed.

Wall Street and congressional Republicans are working overtime trying to prevent implementation of the Wall Street Reform law, which would help prevent the abuses that created the recent financial meltdown.

If there was a “truth in labeling law” for congressional legislation, a series of Republican bills aimed at repealing last year’s landmark Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law would be facing felony charges, AFL-CIO Policy Director Damon Silvers told a congressional hearing today.