Sarah Bloom Raskin, aka Biden's pick to enter the Fed's Board of Governors, is not an option for the Republicans, who accused her of previously lobbying for a fintech firm.
Members of the U.S. Senate Banking committee have reportedly divided along party lines regarding President Joe Biden’s pick of Sarah Bloom Raskin as vice chair for supervision for the Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve.
According to a Tuesday report from Reuters, Senator Pat Toomey, the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee,he had asked the 12 Republican senators on the committee to not attend a meeting in which members were expected to vote on President Biden’s nominees for the Fed. Toomey reportedly said that Democratic leadership can proceed with “five of the six nominees” put forth by the President and expect Republican support — with the exception of Raskin.
Republicans’ boycott is reportedly due to concerns over allegations that the prospective Fed vice chair for supervision lobbied the president of the Kansas City Fed in 2017 for access to its payments systems on behalf of fintech firm Reserve Trust — Raskin was a board member of the firm at the time. The Kansas City Fed later approved Reserve Trust’s request.Raskin’s statements for seemingly advocating for issues “wholly unrelated” to the Fed’s agenda.
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