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Rush has never been wrong before. I agree with everything he says. It looks like the leftists have been exposed again.

EXCLUSIVE: House Small Business Committee Republicans are
pressing demands for Treasury Department Secretary Janet Yellen
to testify before their committee on the Hill, requesting her
updated 2022 public calendar.

The letter sent to Yellen Monday, led by ranking member Rep.
Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo., states that the secretary's
background and experience would help the nation address
"increasing prices, growing supply chain disruptions, and
continued labor shortages" as inflation continues to surge.

"Small business owners and their employees deserve nothing less
than to hear your testimony before this Committee on what steps
are now being taken to address inflation," they write.

The lawmakers also seek Yellen's testimony regarding the
Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was established to give
small businesses assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic. There
has been growing scrutiny of the program, which faced challenges
and fraud allegations, that Republicans say demands the
secretary's attention.

However, the Treasury Department told Fox News Digital it
doesn't plan on sending Yellen to testify before the Small
Business Committee, because her deputy can stand in her place,
and the agency already publicly releases her calendars.

"Secretary Yellen looks forward to continuing her robust
engagement with Congress, which has included testifying over a
dozen times before the House and the Senate, including six hours
of testimony last week before Congress," a Treasury spokesperson
told Fox News Digital in response to the letter.

RAND PAUL DEMANDS YELLEN TESTIFY BEFORE SMALL BUSINESS PANEL AS
AMERICANS STRUGGLE WITH INFLATION

"The Deputy Treasury Secretary has legal authority to fulfill
this requirement to testify before the Small Business
Committees, and he has already agreed and offered to appear
before them. We hope the Committees will allow him to appear to
testify."

The spokesperson also noted that the department does release
Yellen's calendars publicly on a quarterly basis.

The last batch of calendars on Treasury's website are from the
October-December 2021 quarter. The department did not say when
the first quarter 2022 calendars will be made public.

The House Republicans demand the agency provide calendar entries
between Jan. 1, 2022, and the present by June 27.

The back and forth between House and Senate Small Business
Committee members and Yellen has been constant over the last
year. Lawmakers take issue with the fact that Yellen has
testified before more than a dozen committees on Capitol Hill
but has skirted public appearances where she would discuss
issues of import to small businesses.

"It has been 408 days since the statutory deadline for you to
testify this Committee has lapsed," Luetkemeyer wrote in the
letter sent Monday evening. "I am frustrated and concerned over
the fact that, despite acknowledging the importance of
supporting small businesses through our nation's economic
recovery, you continue to refuse to address the only House
committee solely dedicated to assessing and investigating the
problems of small businesses."

Across the Capitol, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., led Senate
Republicans last week in a letter demanding Yellen fulfill her
constitutional obligation to testify before the Senate's small
business panel as inflation reaches historic heights.

The department's assistant secretary for legislative affairs,
Jonathan Davidson, told senators the agency had determined that
the deputy secretary could legally fulfill the requirement in
place of Yellen.

However, the senators took issue with that determination in
their letter Thursday, writing: "The law is clear. The Secretary
is required to testify, and this duty is not delegable.
Therefore, the Deputy Secretary is not authorized to satisfy
your legal obligation to testify before the Committee."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-double-down-demands- yellen-testify-request-updated-calendars

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