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Good morning. Pursuant to notice on september 9, 2020, the Committee Meets to consider a motion to authorize issue to certain subpoenas and note the presence of a quorum. Were here today for two reasons, first to overcome a ridiculous assertion by the Ranking Member regarding Committee Subpoena rules and while were at it, vote on subpoena authority for seven additional individuals based on new information, second to the nominations for the retirement thrift Investment Board. Recording the committee rules, senator peters has an objection. According to senator peters when the committee was on june 4th that did not include authority to schedule any depositions. Rather than raise this issue internally which would have been the proper procedure, the committee not any one member is the arbiter of our rules, senator peters immediately conveyed that objection to a witness who cited it as an excuse to ignore a Committee Subpoena. And the witness encouraged to ignore a subpoena is jonathan winer

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