Senate Banking Committee holds confirmation hearing for Housing and Urban Development and Council of Economic Affairs nominees
Housing and Urban Development secretary nominee Marcia Fudge’s confirmation hearing kicked off with her having to address broad insults as well as an accusation of racism that she previously leveled at Republicans.
At the beginning of her questioning, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., reminded Fudge, who has been serving as a Democratic congresswoman from Ohio since 2008, of two particular charges she made against GOP members.
"In June of last year while discussing Republican policing reform efforts, you said, in part, that if Republicans 'want to save face and let this country know that they care even a little bit about people of color, which I don't believe they do, but if they want to try I want to listen.' Do you really believe that Republicans don’t care even a little bit about people of color?" he asked.