Toomey on Professor Omarova’s Refusal to Turn Over Thesis on Marxism: What is She Hiding?
Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Senate Banking Committee formally received President Biden’s nomination of Professor Saule Omarova for Comptroller of the Currency. Notably missing from her paperwork, however, is a copy of her thesis, “Karl Marx’s Economic Analysis and the Theory of Revolution in The Capital.”
On
October 5, 2021, Senator Toomey sent
a letter asking Ms. Omarova to provide the Committee with a copy of
the thesis no later than October 13, 2021, to allow the Committee adequate time
to translate and thoroughly review it. To this day, Ms. Omarova has neither
provided a copy of her thesis to the Committee nor provided any explanation for
her failure to do so.
“All
nominees within the Committee’s jurisdiction are required to provide their writings, articles, and papers. Unfortunately,
Professor Omarova appears to believe she is exempt from these rules,” said
Ranking Member Toomey. “In order for lawmakers to fully and fairly consider
Professor Omarova’s nomination to serve as our nation’s top banking regulator,
we need a complete picture of her policy positions. The fact that she recently
deleted references to her thesis begs the question: what is she hiding?”
After
President Biden announced his intent to nominate Professor Omarova in late
September, Committee staff reached out to both the nominee and the Office of
the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) requesting a copy of the thesis. Neither
Ms. Omarova nor the OCC agreed to share a copy with the Committee in a timely
fashion. Instead, the OCC said it would revisit the issue once her paperwork
had been formally submitted to the Committee. While the nomination has now
been formally submitted, the Committee has not received any indication that the
OCC or the nominee will turn over the thesis.
Last
month, Senator Toomey spoke
on the Senate floor to raise concerns over Professor Omarova’s plan
to have the federal government set price controls for large sectors of the U.S.
economy, including food, gas, wages, and home prices.
As
the Senator pointed
out, Professor Omarova “has been celebrated on the far left for
promoting ideas she herself has described as radical,” including advocating for
“effectively end[ing] banking as we know it.”
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