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Going on. those of us pushed on to it were kind of punished. >> that was a bad assignment. >> terrible assignment. >> because of savings and loans? >> the scandal going on. >> you got on there because it was a back water. >> that's right, that's right. that's exactly right. i paid my dues and i stayed on and i worked hard and i learned from great chair men. >> you have been on for 28 years? >> yes, i have. yes. i learned an awful lot and i know an awful lot and i have been the leader as a ranking member for the democratic caucus in helping to complain to them the issues that go through that co...

It's all very secret and cloak and daggar and you are an elite group of people. how much has the committee been broken. it's the institutional basis for the last two years. >> i will tell you the good and the bad news. the bad news is obvious. we operated in a bipartisan fashion until march 20th. that was the day in 2017 when james comey testified publicly that there were two investigations. not just a clinton investigation, but one of the trump organization. that prompted the now infamous midnight run by the chairman the following day or evening. that completely blew up bipartisan work on the...

Do the work that you are familiar with. the day job, the bread and butter and the oversight of the mammoth agencies and making sure they are funded appropriately and maintaining people's privacy and operating constitutionally and legally. all of that we have continued to do in a nonpartisan way. you don't see that. >> i guess from a sort of emotional human level and institutionally you are able to cordon those things off from each other. >> we have. we made the decision not to let our differences impede the otherwise vital work of the committee. >> there is a broader question they want to ask ...

>> that's right. >> how are you thinking about the balance between those two imperatives? >> we have to be very clear that we have lots of responsibilities in this committee. as you know, i have been focused on the consumer financial protection bureau, the centerpiece of the dodd frank reform and mulvaney who was sent over temporarily by the period to oversee it after the guy who headed it left to run for governor. he tried to dismantle the consumer financial protection bureau. before we got the consumer financial protection bureau in the dodd frank legislation, consumers had no real protectio...