'Lawyerly and Limited': Trump's CFPB Nominee Frustrates Democrats at Senate Hearing
In a nearly three-hour confirmation hearing, Kathy Kraninger rankled Democrats over responses to their queries. “I am trying to get an answer from you, and I just can't,” said Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii.
July 19, 2018 at 03:30 PM
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Kathy Kraninger, the White House budget official nominated to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, spent her confirmation hearing Thursday dodging questions about her role in the Trump administration's “zero tolerance” immigration policies and disaster relief for Puerto Rico, delivering evasive answers that one Democratic senator described as “maddening.”
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