Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Created by campell and 97 and brought to you today by your television provider. The former wells fargo executive testified themselves as the consumer abuses that led to the executives earnings. Members of the House Financial Services committee question the witnesses on their actions at wells fargo and why no one has been prosecuted for the consumer abuses. This is just over two and a half hours. Thank you. This hearing is entitled Holding Wells Fargo Accountable examining the roll of board of directors and that the greatest patterns of consumer abuses. Today, we received testimony from elisabeth and mr. James quigley who until earlier this weeks are as chair of the board of directors of wells fargo and companys Walls Fargo Bank respectively. Both have resigned as our call for the resignations following the release of us phasing majority statute on wells fargos compliance failures in their individual failures as Board Members. Resignations do n
The chairman of the gentleman from mr. From texas is recognized. Thank you madam chair. Madam chair, as a practitioner, i once represented a rips recipient of welfare who is charged with a crime, because she made more money at a job and receiveds some benefits from the federal government. She had to be prosecuted. A crowned with allege. If this bank works much smaller, had maybe ten employees who were engaging in this type of activity, opening an opening up false accounts, fraudulent accounts, creating fraudulent credit cards. Someone would be prosecuted. If small banks would have had prosecution take place within the rank of the person within the bank. Evidence shows that small banks have had persons prosecuted. But wells fargo created 1. 5 million fraudulent accounts. Wells fargo had over 500,000 credit cards created fraudulently. Is it the case that if you become so big, and you create such a grand steam, that you are beyond the law of the law to apply to wells fargo just does it ap
The chairman of the gentleman from mr. From texas is recognized. Thank you madam chair. Madam chair, as a practitioner, i once represented a rips recipient of welfare who is charged with a crime, because she made more money at a job and receiveds some benefits from the federal government. She had to be prosecuted. A crowned with allege. If this bank works much smaller, had maybe ten employees who were engaging in this type of activity, opening an opening up false accounts, fraudulent accounts, creating fraudulent credit cards. Someone would be prosecuted. If small banks would have had prosecution take place within the rank of the person within the bank. Evidence shows that small banks have had persons prosecuted. But wells fargo created 1. 5 million fraudulent accounts. Wells fargo had over 500,000 credit cards created fraudulently. Is it the case that if you become so big, and you create such a grand steam, that you are beyond the law of the law to apply to wells fargo just does it ap
Will we had that 2 as we continue to get a trade deal . Time now for global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. From hong kong to beijing, london and washington, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. In asia, chinese economy is showing signs of stabilization and regaining some kind of growth momentum in november. Chinas Industrial Production and retail sales both meeting estimates. Joining me on the phone is in an. Current is enda curr give me some of the details in the data dump we saw overnight. Enda these clearly signal that the economy is ending the year on a better note. 8 . Il sales climbed Industrial Production rose 6. 2 . Theres some caution around the fixed Asset Investment number, which only grew 5. 2 , but nonetheless, the take away among economists was it showed that the stimulus the government is rolling out is having some traction. There were some seasonal effects as well. But when you have a trade ag
Implemented properly. Agriculture, nutrition and Forestry Committee members talked to farmers, Rural Utility Service officials and Healthcare Industry leaders about issues impacting Rural Communities. Including access to Rural Broadband, Water Infrastructure and Health Care Services and agricultural production. Good morning. I call this hearing of the Senate Committee on agriculture and nutrition and forestry to order. Todays hearing advances this committees continued oversight of the department of agricultures implementation of the 2018 farm bill. A principle duty of this committee is to ensure that the department had the authority and resources to provide the agriculture producers with the necessary tools to feed a troubled and hungry world as well as this country. But the responsibility of the committee and the usda does not stop there and it is critical as Partnership Supports businesses and the electric cooperatives and telecom providers, schools and clinics and the product manufa