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Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., speaks at the Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing for Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be Secretary of the Treasury, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) **FILE**

Senate Banking Committee seeks ways to reduce politicized debanking of Americans

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

FILE - Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference at the Federal Reserve in Washington, June 12, 2024. Powell testifies to the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Fed’s Powell highlights slowing job market in signal that rate cuts may be nearing

By Christopher Rugaber - Associated Press

Store manager Josh Poole pours marijuana flowers onto a try at a Mango Cannabis medical marijuana dispensary, Monday, March 6, 2023, in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma voters will decide Tuesday whether to make the state one of the most conservative to green light cannabis use for adults. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Senate advances cannabis banking reform bill

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Bongs for sale are shown on display Tuesday, April 19, 2022, in a glass case at Mary Mart, a marijuana store in Tacoma, Wash., as armed security guard Austin MacMath stands watch outside. A surge in robberies at licensed cannabis shops in Washington state is helping fuel a renewed push for federal banking reforms that would make the cash-dependent stores a less appealing target. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Marijuana is banking that protection gains momentum in Senate

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sarah Bloom Raskin, a nominee to be the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors vice chair for supervision, the nation's top bank regulator, is sworn in to testify during the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, in Washington. (Bill Clark/Pool via AP)

Biden nominee Sarah Bloom Raskin accused of seeking to politicize Fed against oil industry

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks to lawmakers during a House Committee on Financial Services hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 1, 2021. With inflation surging, unemployment falling and wages rising, some economists are warning that the Federal Reserve may have waited too long to reverse its ultra-low-rate policies — a delay that could put the economy at heightened risk. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Inflation dominates Powell’s confirmation hearing for a second term steering the Fed

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell adjusts his watch as he prepares to speak to lawmakers during a House Committee on Financial Services hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Powell calls inflation a severe threat, disputes White House claims of easing supply-chain woes

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

U.S. economist Larry Summers speaks during a panel on the second day of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Michel Euler) ** FILE **

‘Woke’ Federal Reserve in danger of losing control of inflation, economists warn

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by U.S. Embassy Seoul, U.S. special envoy for climate John Kerry gestures while speaking during a round table meeting with the media in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 18, 2021. The United States and China, the world's two biggest carbon polluters, have agreed to cooperate with other countries to curb climate change, just days before U.S. President Joe Biden hosts a virtual summit of world leaders to discuss the issue. (U.S. Embassy Seoul via AP)

Republicans accuse John Kerry of pressuring banks to discriminate against fossil fuel companies

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, right, speaks with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, at the start of a meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018, at the Treasury Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Jerome Powell, Steven Mnuchin: Federal Reserve, Treasury to use ‘full range of tools’ to aid economy

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

In this Spet. 9, 2019, photo, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump admin. officials spar with senators over plan for mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

By Marcy Gordon - Associated Press

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell presents the monetary policy report to the Senate Banking Committee, July 11, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The Latest: Powell says tariffs, immigration slow housing

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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

The Latest: Powell: Fed in ‘no rush’ to decide rate moves

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In this July 19, 2018, file photo, Kathleen Kraninger, President Donald Trump's nominee to be the director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, testifies before a Senate Banking Committee hearing on her confirmation on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ms. Kraninger won final Senate approval on Dec. 6, 2018, by a 50-49 vote. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) **FILE**

Senate panel approves Trump’s nominee for consumer watchdog

By KEN SWEET - Associated Press

Kathleen Kraninger, President Donald Trump's nominee to be the director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, testifies before a Senate Banking Committee hearing on her confirmation on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

The Latest: Watchdog nominee fails to sway Democrats

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Senate panel rejects Trump nominee Scott Garrett to head Ex-Im Bank

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump sticks by Scott Garrett nomination to Export-Import Bank

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, Alabama Republican, listens as Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen testifies on U.S. monetary policy on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 21, 2016. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Democrats urge Sen. Richard Shelby to drop Ex-Im blockade

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 16, 2009, file photo, the MetLife building overlooks a shorter building in New York. MetLife said Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, that it is going to ask a federal judge to review its designation as a “too big to fail” company. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

CAL THOMAS: Sunshine Week should turn up the heat

By Cal Thomas

Elizabeth Warren (Associated Press)

Elizabeth Warren demands jail time for Wall Street bankers

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times