Nomination of Steven Mnuchin to be the secretary of treasury. And this is yet another nomination on which the majority has walked away, unfortunately, from a 20year bipartisan approach when it comes to the vetting process. In 2009 when tim guide near was guide ner was president obamas nominee, a vetting issue came up and both sides of the finance committee carried the investigation out to its conclusion. But the situation has turned out quite differently this time. There were several properties in the United States and abroad worth a hundred Million Dollars missing from mr. Mnuchins disclosure. He failed to disclose several positions in various firms. He misled the public. He misled the committees about his banks forecloser tactics and he appears to have hidden key data requested by members of this body. Frankly, i dont believe these investigations would have been uncovered at all if not for the work of the minorities investigations team. The majority, however, looked the other way and
Nomination of Steven Mnuchin to be the secretary of treasury. And this is yet another nomination on which the majority has walked away, unfortunately, from a 20year bipartisan approach when it comes to the vetting process. In 2009 when tim guide near was guide ner was president obamas nominee, a vetting issue came up and both sides of the finance committee carried the investigation out to its conclusion. But the situation has turned out quite differently this time. There were several properties in the United States and abroad worth a hundred Million Dollars missing from mr. Mnuchins disclosure. He failed to disclose several positions in various firms. He misled the public. He misled the committees about his banks forecloser tactics and he appears to have hidden key data requested by members of this body. Frankly, i dont believe these investigations would have been uncovered at all if not for the work of the minorities investigations team. The majority, however, looked the other way and
And the vast majority of everything we do is right. Firing the highest number of people in 2013 but bragging about your presentation penetration rates in 2014. You knew it was material to shareholders and you knew it was a funny number that you fired people phony number that you five people for falsifying. Fired people for falsifying. We did not know if those were good accounts are not. We looked at 20,000 credit you fired 5300 people. He took 5300 could americans and turned them into felons with a system that you created, benefited from and drop your stock price up by bragging about your levels of new accounts. I disagree with that. Im not surprised. We have institutions that are too big to fail. We found that they were too big not to bail. Eric holder has told us that they are too big to jail saying he fears for bringing equivalent indictment. We now learn they are too big to manage, too big to regulate. It is time to break them up. The time has expired. The chair recognizes the gent
To b to c to d to e, on up through all the various iterations, you dont have to rebuild the Network Every time you do that. Thats one of the things thats taken into consideration as youre doing standard. Yes, sir . Thank you, sir. David mccabe from the hill. Im looking a the next couple months and it seems like im sorry, youre what . A the next couple months. It seems like there may be a point where youre fighting contentious battles. The set top box item lifeline and almost certainly a privacy ruling for isps. I wonder how you expect to handle the challenge of fighting on kind of three different fronts and also whether you are concerned at all that that might make it harder to get consensus among the five of you on less controversial atim tells . So, again, i think the reality comes down to the fact that there is, roughly 9 0 of the time theres consensus. All you get to see is the fun stuff. I was interested during the Media Coverage of Justice Scalias death that one of his quotes was
He did speak to both democrats and republicans. Can you say how many . I dont have the specific numbers here. But the president convened many calls with democrats and rms opt Judiciary Committee. You say these are intensive consultations. Are names exchanged . Well, i dont have a beyond just saying do your job, ill do my job, we all know the constitution. When you say intensive, can you give some indication of what again, i think it depends on the person and on the view of the person on the other end of the phone. Well, the best possible circumstances. Well, yeah. Look, as ive noted earlier, there are some people who have publicly and privately said theyre not going to consider anybody. It is hard to have a detailed conversation about who the president is considering if theyve already said it doesnt matter who you choose, im going to oppose them. Unfortunately, thats the approach thats been taken by a large number of republicans and thats unfortunate. Is that the response he got from s