{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/senator-tim-scott-grills-saule-omarova-at-banking-committee-hearing/", "Senator Tim Scott Grills Saule Omarova at Banking Committee Hearing", "2021-11-18", "2021", "2021-11", "Republican", "Senate", "SC", "Tim Scott", "S001184", "www.scott.senate.gov", "timscott", "https://www.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/jsf/jet-engine:press-list", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) grilled President Biden\u2019s nominee for Comptroller of the Currency, Saule Omarova, for her numerous inflammatory, ideologically radical, and disqualifying statements and writings.\n\nClick to Watch Sen. Scott\u2019s Remarks\n\nRead Senator Scott\u2019s remarks below:\n\n\u201c\u2026I want to be fair and I will be fair. I won\u2019t be hyperbolic, but I will be frank and honest. I cannot think of a nominee more poorly suited to be the Comptroller of the Currency based solely on your public positions, statements, and the weight of your writings than you are. Let me just quote you versus anybody else.\n\n\u201cOn the Green New Deal \u2026 you proposed taking economic and climate policy making from Congress and creating an unaccountable bureaucracy called the National Investment Authority. In a roundtable this year\u2014this year\u2014you pushed \u2018to make the NIA the dedicated institutional platform at the federal level for really being the kind of fighting muscle of the Green New Deal and fighting muscle of, you know, all of these other movements that are pursuing environmental justice, social, economic justice, equality, and so on.\u2019\n\n\u201cYour disdain for the financial services industry: In 2019, in a documentary titled\u2014I\u2019ll be kind\u2014\u2018Buttholes: A Theory,\u2019 you said, \u2018The financial services industry, in my view, and I don\u2019t think I\u2019m alone here, is the quintessential \u201cbutthole\u201d industry.\u2019\n\n\u201cKilling American energy\u2026In a Jain Family Institute Seminar in March of this year, you proposed bankrupting the coal and oil and gas industries saying, \u2018We want them to go bankrupt if we want to tackle the climate change.\u2019 That\u2019s really hard to misunderstand.\n\n\u201cOn nationalizing banking, last year, 2020, not 10 years ago, not 20 years ago. Just last year, a paper you titled \u2018The People\u2019s Ledger: How to Democratize Money and Finance the Economy,\u2019 you proposed reforms to, and I quote \u201ceffectively end banking as we know it\u201d by \u2026 nationalizing retail banking, as it relates to the end of private banking. Your words. No one else\u2019s. This year. Not 5 years ago, not 10 years ago, not 20 years ago. This year. You said, you proposed to, \u201cimagine what it would be like if, instead of just a public option for deposit banking, this would be actually the full transition, in other words, there would be no more private bank deposit accounts and all of the deposit accounts would be held directly at the Fed.\u2019\n\n\u201cI don\u2019t have any questions for you, because there is nothing you can say today to undo what you said for years, including this year. Thank you Mr. Chairman.\u201d\n\nClick here to watch the full video of his remarks.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:30:49Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/senator-tim-scott-grills-saule-omarova-at-banking-committee-hearing/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 9.355607908219099, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}