Democrats on
the House Financial Services Committee have quietly attempted to scuttle a
congressional hearing looking into whistleblower allegations of discrimination
at the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau. Rep. Patrick McHenry, a North Carolina
Republican, slammed the Democratic effort, calling it an “attempt to silence
and intimidate whistleblowers.” Rep. Maxine Waters of California and Rep. Al
Green of Texas, two ranking Democratic members of the House Financial Services
Committee, last week wrote a letter urging the cancellation of Wednesday's
scheduled hearing about Angela Martin, a CFPB employee scheduled to testify
about employment discrimination and retaliation.
The
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations had originally invited three CFPB
officials to testify at the hearing, including a federal employee union official. Democrats urged
cancellation after the CFPB barred the officials from testifying before the subcommittee........
“I found that the general environment in Consumer Response is one of exclusion,
retaliation, discrimination, nepotism, demoralization, devaluation, and other
offensive working conditions which constitute a toxic workplace for many of its
employees,” Raucci plans to testify, according to Politico.
My Take –See, there’s always a silver
lining if you look for it. In a
world that fast became incapable of defining right and wrong, stupid and
smart, capable versus competent and corrupt versus moral, we have Maxine
Walters, The President of the Club for the Galacticly Stupid, giving us a
foundation for clarity. In order to do
the right thing any sane person would automatically want to take a position
diametrically opposing Maxine Walters’ position. We can only hope Maxine will remain
consistent.
Clarity is so important!
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