saule omarova is an accomplished academic, an attorney, and a public policy advisor, but you wouldn t know it if you were listening to republicans this week. omarova was nominated by president biden to serve as comptroller of the currency, a role responsible for the regulation of assets held by more than a thousand banks, and while democrats lined up in support of her nomination, republicans were mostly focused upon denigrating her character. omarova, who is kazakh american left to study in the u.s. it brought some republicans to the dubious conclusion that she is an undercover communist. things only got worse when john kennedy of louisiana chimed in with this. senator, i was born and grew up in the soviet union. yes, ma am, but were you a member of that everybody in that country was a member of the communist youth organization. so, you were that was you were a member? have you resigned?