Warren Blasts CFPB, FHFA nominees that continue to the senate confirmation votes
During last week’s confirmation hearing, the legislators in the committee were limited to just 75 seconds each to ask questions to all four nominees. This includes two positions with direct ties with the home and mortgage industry – Jonathan McKernan for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Bill Pulte to the Federal Housing Financing Office (FHFA).
In one press release Published by Democrats in the Bank Committee, Warren released the full answers to its questions submitted for all four nominees and called their answers ‘disqualifies’.
Similar to criticisms that Warren and other Democrats have yielded against the confirmation process for US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner, Warren has also destroyed the committee before continuing with confirmation votes without FBI Background checks for two of the nominees considered.
“Today the committee will meet in executive session to vote on the nominations and the Republicans will spend them even before the FBI has completed a standard background investigation,” said the release.
Warren too a letter published She sent to Pulte in which she asked information about reports that he deleted 25,000 messages from social media platform XOf which she said he ‘refused’ to do.
Nevertheless the nominations for all four nominees The committee tolerated the committee on Thursday morning And will go to the entire Senate for a confirmation voice. It is generally expected to confirm all four nominees. Three of the votes, including for McKernan, won 13-11 by festive lines.
The nomination of Pulte was the only one who received two-part support, with two Democrats-Ruben Gallego from Arizona and Angela Alsobrooks from Maryland Die crossing the aisle to promote his nomination in a vote of 15-9.
Commission chairman Tim Scott praised the nominations in statements submitted for the record.
“As director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, Jonathan McKernan will provide accountability and much needed reforms to limit the armament of this rogue agency,” said Scott.
Scott said Van Pulte that his “leadership of the federal housing financing agency will be crucial in protecting our housing financing system.”
