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Cummings Warms to the Task of Being Issa's Foil on Oversight Panel
Originally published at the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/06/02/02greenwire-cummings-warms-to-the-task-of-being-issas-foil-44231.html?pagewanted=print
By JOHN MCARDLE of Greenwire
As the House Republican majority pursues multiple ways to reduce the burden of government regulation on private businesses, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) has been offering a cautionary tale from his teenage years in Baltimore.
Washington, D.C. – Today Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings, joined by all seven Subcommittee Ranking Members, sent a letter to Chairman Darrell Issa objecting to his new policy on minority witnesses.
This unprecedented new policy, instituted on March 25, designates all Administration officials invited to testify by Chairman Issa to testify before the Committee as "minority witnesses." The new policy also requires the minority to submit their witness requests before Chairman Issa reveals the identities of witnesses he has invited to hearings.
Washington, DC – Describing new evidence of illegal foreclosures, inflated fees, and other widespread abuses, Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings wrote to Chairman Darrell Issa today to request that the Committee issue subpoenas to require mortgage servicing companies to produce previously-requested documents.
Washington, DC – Today, Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings wrote to federal banking regulators to request copies of "engagement letters" between 14 mortgage servicing companies and the private consultants they hired to review their widespread foreclosure abuses. The deadline for federal regulators to approve these engagement letters is today.
Washington, DC — Today Oversight Committee Ranking Member Elijah E.
WASHINGTON, DC – Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings and Congresswoman Jackie Speier, joined by Democratic Members of the Subcommittee on TARP and Financial Services, sent a letter to GOP Chairman Patrick McHenry today asking him to apologize for his "disrespectful treatment" of Professor Elizabeth Warren, Special Advisory to the Secretary of the Treasury, during yesterday's hearing.
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