hly-publicized spat, McHenry later accused Warren of lying about having an agreement on how long she would stay for the hearing. The sparring is likely to resurface at the July hearing, which is set for a week before the embattled consumer bureau's July 21 debut. The Dodd-Frank financial overhaul Congress passed last year created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as the first financial regulatory agency solely focused on consumer protection. But Republicans and the financial industry, which have opposed the bureau's creation, are seeking to dull the agency's powers. Republicans argue that the bureau has too much authority over financial firms without enough congressional oversight, and they have vowed to block anyone whom the president nominates to lead the consumer bureau. Last week, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) asked Warren to clear a full day for testimony. "In light of the inability of all members of the subcommittee to have an opportunity to ask you questions, and your unwillingness to provide direct and responsive answers to a number of important quay. Speaking at an industry conference, Kevin Anton, chief sustainability officer at Alcoa Inc. (AA), said aluminum demand should grow by 12% in 2011 from year-earlier levels, citing rising automotive and aerospace demand as well as growing appetites for the metal from emerging markets. "We're seeing orders [in the truck market] that we haven't seen in years," Anton said. Anton said Brazil should see demand increase dramatically in the coming years as the country improves its inf50 or so workers, mostly maids, were bused in by their union. After Strauss-Kahn was driven away, his lawyers duked it out with attorneys for the accuser, a 32-year-old West African immigrant. In sequential statements before an international horde of reporters, each side's lawyers argued their client's version of events would prevail. Brafman said the attorneys would not try the case publicly, but referred to Strauss-Kahn's not-guilty plea as "a very eloquent, powerful statement that he made that he denies the charges." The 62-year-old Strauss-Kahn was scheduled to check out of the Sofitel hotel, near Times Square, the day of the encounter. The maid told police he chased her down a hallway in his Sofitel hotel suite May 14, tried to pull down her pantyhose and forced her to perform oral sex. The maid's attorney, Kenneth Thompson, said his client would testify at trial and tell the truth despite the "smear campaign that is being committed against her." He was referring to mostly French media reports alleging a conspiracy against Strauss-Kahn and suggesting her story was invented. The defense has also alluded to having damning information against the maid but has not released it. "The victim wants you to know that all of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's power, money and influence throughout the world will not keep the truth about what he did to her in that hotel room from coming out," Thompson said. "She is standing up for women around the world, sexually assaulted, who are too afraid to come forward." The Associated Press generally does not identify accusers in sex crime cases unless they agree to it. Thompson said the maid, a widow who has a teenage daughter, has not worked since the encounter because she is traumatized. The Manhattan district attorney's office did not comment outside court. The case has been intensely followed around the world, spawning news reports even about food deliveries to the home where Strauss-Kahn is staying. His arrest rocked France, where he had been considered a potential contender in next year's presidential elections, and shook up the IMF. He resigned amid the scandal and proclaimed his innocence in a letter to staff. The powerful lending organization has yet to name his replacement. In a sign of the attention the case has received, novelist Jay McInerney was among the roughly 100 writers and journalists who packed the courtroom; a score or so of others didn't make it in, and many others waited with news cameras outside the courthouse. McInerney wrote a piece about the Strauss-Kahn case last month for the London-based newspaper The Independent. News of the hearing was the top story on French front pages and broadcasts Monday. "DSK: D-Day" headlined French newspaper Le Figaro, suggesting the routine hearing was a pivotal moment in the case. It was also a reference to Monday's 67th anniversary of the U.S.- and British-led invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, known as D-Day, which helped free France from the Nazi grip in World War II. French media published primers about the U.S. legal system, which differs in many aspects from France's — including the American jury trial or the condition of "beyond a reasonable doubt" for any conviction in the case. Monday's proceeding was Strauss-Kahn's arraignment before his trial judge