Elizabeth Warren, President Obama’s controversial pick to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, today appeared as a witness at a congressional hearing to testify on the oversight of the bureau. But things got a little testy when Warren wanted to leave before two members had a chance to question her.
In a heated back-and-forth with Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), Warren insisted that she had been promised by his staff that in exchange for moving the hearing time up by 45 minutes, she would get to leave after one hour of questioning. "Congressman, you are causing problems,” Warren said. “We had an agreement for a later hearing. Your staff asked us to move around so that we had to change everything on my schedule.”
McHenry said they had not made such an agreement:
Warren: Congressman we had an agreement
McHenry: You had no agreement
Warren: We had an agreement for the time this hearing would occur
McHenry: You're making this up Ms. Warren...This is not the case.
Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) then jumped to her defense, "Mr. Chairman, you just did something that I'm trying to be cordial here, but you just accused the lady of lying."
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