'Tell Her To Tone It Down': GOP Senator Slams Biden Nominee After She Called Him Racist

to be comptroller of the currency and her recent comments on those of us who are actually asking questions about her background because they're pretty outrageous and i think it's time in some ways we got to stop put it we've got we need to put an end to this notion that you can't criticize someone for their ideas without being charged with things like maybe racism which kind of gets me a little bit riled up since i think i was one of the targets of her remarks i've been down on the floor talking about some of the nominees that this administration has put forward some are so radical far left the atf nominee was actually against the second amendment he got withdrawn the blm director was an eco-terrorist she got voted in now she's in charge of 60 percent of my state remarkable i think a lot of senators are going to reject that vote and now we have a nominee to be the comptroller of the currency salah amarvora she will be she's charged with chartering regulating supervising all national banks really important position for a capitalist economy in particular there's a problem though mr president doesn't seem like she much likes banks or for that matter the free market or for that matter capitalism or the financial system in america so senators have been coming down the floor in committee asking questions doing our due diligence on this nominee i want to commend senator toomey in particular who has been doing that and i've been joining him so i'm going to talk a little bit more about her background and her ideas which by the way have nothing to do with her race or her sex nothing i just want to know what her ideas are so i'm going to talk a little bit about that 1989 graduate of moscow state university where she received the lenin personal academic scholarship that's the vladimir lenin personal academic scholarship and from we know about her writings yes she was raised in a communist country that's nothing against her but sometimes you get notions of capitalism socialism communism marxism her writings are something that are of interest to the committee certainly to me certainly to senator toomey about what she believes in terms of the financial system socialism communism here's what she tweeted in 2019 just two years ago until i came to the u s i couldn't imagine things like gender pay gap still existed in today's world say what you want about the old ussr but there was no pay gap there markets don't always work best that's a tweet two years ago say what you want about the old usr ussr about stalin and lenin and the roughly 100 million people killed during their reign say what you want about the old ussr are the famine the human degradation the elevated ill-fated violent attempts to snuff out freedom and liberty there and all across the world she clarified i never claimed men and women were treated absolutely equal in every faucet of the old soviet union but people's salaries were set by the state in a gender blind manner those things are still a pipe dream in american society i mean listen to her this is just two years ago still talking about the golden days of the ussr there was gender equity all right both sexes starved equally and if you complain you were sent to siberia regardless if you were a man or a woman but mr president her nostalgia for socialist communist policies doesn't end with pay disparities she is advocated for expanding the federal reserve's mandate to include the federal reserve people's ledger as she has written about a people's ledger by separating the lending function from the monetary function the proposed reform that she's talked about will effectively quote end banking as we know it this was written in 2014 as a professor these are radical radical ideas these are ideas and this person is supposed to be charged with being in charge of the financial system of america capitalism some of us still believe in capitalism here some don't but it's okay to question these ideas she's put them out there the ranking member of the banking committee has asked for her a copy of her thesis now every member going through confirmation the senate is supposed to give up any writings that she had this used to be on her cv until a couple years ago then she deleted it it's called karl marx's economic analysis in the theory of revolution in the capital so senator toomey's asked for that she's required to give it and as of now this is a letter mr chairman i'd like to submit for the record october 5th senator toomey asked for this without objection she still hasn't responded and provided it she's required to but again mr president these are ideas these are her ideas very fair for united states senators to ask for these things to evaluate these things do we want someone who doesn't believe in the financial system and capitalism in charge of american banks i don't so i'd like to learn more and so we've been pressing that's our job that's our job so she hasn't responded to senator toomey as i mentioned in a reference to a 2014 book entitled the end of banking she wrote quote by separating their lending function from the monetary function the proposed reform for the fed will effectively quote end banking as we know it that's a really interesting radical idea that's 2014. these are her ideas these are her ideas and if there's any doubt about her continued interest in marxist ideology it was recently reported that she joined a facebook group called quote marxist analysis and policy which according to the group quote stands for the self emancipation of the working class in socialism unquote recent this is recent this wasn't when she was at old moscow state university recent she has not said that story was wrong about her facebook group so we can only assume it's true did she join that group to espouse democracy in the free market here are the group's rules quote support for the tory party is not acceptable a culture of diverse marxist socialist and radical views is the framework for the group unquote again these are ideas radical ideas socialist ideas that are coming from the woman who has been nominated by the president united states to be in charge of all the banks the comptroller of the currency really important job so we've been asking about this we've been asking about this we want to see her writings this is completely legitimate that the american people want the senate to be doing this advice and consent what do you really think do you believe in capitalism you believe in banks you want to end banking as we know it well how is that going to work if your comptroller of the currency so we're asking for these things asking for her thesis and then mr president sadly because i think americans are finally getting tired of this she was asked about this republican criticism it's legitimate criticism and the quote was well i'm an easy target this is quoting from her now an immigrant a woman a minority and asked if she thought of some of the criticism of her that i'm just describing i'm one of the critics was criticism based on her critics being quote racist she said quote i think that is true so here's my point mr president i think the american people are getting a little tired of this i think the american people are getting a little tired of this i and other senators have been asking very legitimate questions about this woman's beliefs about what's in her head about how would she be the comptroller of the currency and the response is from her my critics are quote racist let me be a little more blunt this is patently absurd united states senators are allowed to ask questions sometimes pointed questions of nominees the presiding officer certainly has done that in his career and i respect that but every time someone asks the appointed question if you come back and say well they're doing it for these nefarious reasons like racism it really doesn't advance the discussion now does it especially here on the floor of the united states senate i really hope my colleagues here whether you're a democrat or republican can maybe tell the nominee hey don't do that again right don't do that again these senators are asking i think i'm asking very legitimate questions like number one do you believe in capitalism you believe in the financial system of america you're going to be put in charge of it i think it's quite legit to ask her that her writing indicates she doesn't this nominee has some very troubling views we are allowed in fact we are required to fully vet nominees and calling senators racist or sexist for doing so this vetting is actually a disgraceful tactic that they might have used in the soviet union that they might have used at moscow state university in other areas to silence voices but it's not going to work here on the senate floor so the nominee needs to drop that tactic you're not going to silence me you're not going to silence senator toomey and i would just say this more generally and we all know it and we all feel it americans men women black white brown native non-native people are starting to get tired of this tactic that when you criticize someone on their beliefs they try to silence you or cancel you or end the discussion by bringing out you're the racist critic criticism let's not do that here this nominee needs to come forward needs to answer questions needs to provide us with her thesis which is about her beliefs on socialism and capitalism and we're going to continue to do our business in the vetting but i can tell you i'm i'm one senator who is not going to be silenced by a woman who's being criticized a nominee it doesn't matter a woman or man who's being criticized for very legitimate reasons and then turns around and tries to slander her critics it's not going to work as a matter of fact i think it's going to make it much harder for this nominee to be confirmed i hope my colleagues look hard at her record and i hope those who are advising her tell her to tone it down those tactics might work in the soviet union where she seems to have a lot of affection for still but they're not going to work in the united states of america and they're really not going to work in the halls of the united states senate yield the floor

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Published: Thu Nov 04 2021