{"id":1024210,"date":"2021-11-17T15:44:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T20:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1024210"},"modified":"2021-11-17T15:44:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T20:44:48","slug":"ahead-of-senate-hearing-saule-omarova-still-hasnt-given-her-karl-marx-thesis-to-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ahead-of-senate-hearing-saule-omarova-still-hasnt-given-her-karl-marx-thesis-to-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahead Of Senate Hearing, Saule Omarova Still Hasn\u2019t Given Her Karl Marx Thesis To Lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fahead-of-senate-hearing-saule-omarova-still-hasnt-given-her-karl-marx-thesis-to-lawmakers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1024210&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Biden\u2019s controversial pick to serve as a top Treasury Department official has not turned her thesis about Karl Marx over to the Senate Banking Committee, effectively ignoring a request from top Republican lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Saule Omarova \u2014 a law professor at Cornell University and a 1989 graduate of Moscow State University \u2014 has generated suspicion over her apparent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-bank-regulator-nominee-say-what-you-will-about-old-ussr-there-was-no-gender-pay-gap\">sympathy<\/a> toward the Soviet Union and its purported gender equality. She has likewise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/key-biden-nominee-on-oil-companies-we-want-them-to-go-bankrupt-if-we-want-to-tackle-climate-change\">called<\/a> for the bankruptcy of oil companies to fight climate change and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article?id=18281\">pushed<\/a> for the Federal Reserve to manage consumer bank deposits.<\/p>\n<p>Norbert Michel \u2014 who leads the Cato Institute\u2019s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/why-controversial-biden-nominee-saule-omarova-would-be-disastrous-as-a-key-treasury-official\">told<\/a> The Daily Wire on Wednesday that if she is appointed as Comptroller of the Currency, Omarova will have \u201cenormous discretion to direct banking activity through examination and enforcement actions, including which types of customers banks lend to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her other controversies, Omarova has ignored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-nominee-who-praised-soviet-unions-lack-of-gender-pay-gap-hasnt-turned-over-karl-marx-thesis-to-senate\">requests<\/a> from Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) \u2014 the Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Committee \u2014 to turn over her thesis, entitled \u201cKarl Marx\u2019s Economic Analysis and the Theory of Revolution in Das Kapital.\u201d Omarova wrote the paper during her time at Moscow State University, where she benefited from the V.I. Lenin Personal Academic Scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile it appears that you have deleted any reference to your thesis in the version of your curriculum vitae (CV) that is currently available on the Cornell Law School website, the paper appeared on your CV as recently as April 2017,\u201d Toomey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.banking.senate.gov\/newsroom\/minority\/toomey-calls-on-omarova-to-turn-over-her-moscow-state-thesis-on-marxism\">wrote<\/a> on October 6, asking her to submit a copy of the thesis to the Senate Banking Committee by October 13.<\/p>\n<p>A Toomey spokesperson confirmed to The Daily Wire on Wednesday that Omarova has still not provided lawmakers with a copy of the document.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2021\/11\/whos-afraid-of-saule-omarova.html\">New York Magazine<\/a> article that dismisses concerns about the radical nominee as \u201cludicrous red-baiting,\u201d Omarova claimed that she does not have the thesis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a written-exam type of thing,\u201d Omarova told the outlet. \u201cWe were assigned mandatory topics, and I got assigned something about Karl Marx, economic theory, I don\u2019t even remember. Nobody took it seriously; it was not meant to be an actual academic exercise. All you had to do was basically copy from whatever the textbook said, and that was that. So I wrote that paper, got my degree. Literally the next day, I forgot about it, just like every other graduate in my class<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden\u2019s controversial pick to serve as a top Treasury Department official has not turned her thesis about Karl Marx over to the Senate Banking Committee, effectively ignoring a request from top Republican lawmakers.Saule Omarova \u2014 a law professor at Cornell University and a 1989 graduate of Moscow State University \u2014 has generated suspicion over her apparent sympathy toward the Soviet Union and its purported gender equality. She has likewise called for the bankruptcy of oil companies to fight climate change and pushed for the Federal Reserve to manage consumer bank deposits.Norbert Michel \u2014 who leads the Cato Institute\u2019s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives \u2014 told The Daily Wire on Wednesday that if she is appointed as Comptroller of the Currency, Omarova will have \u201cenormous discretion to direct banking activity through examination and enforcement actions, including which types of customers banks lend to.\u201dIn addition to her other controversies, Omarova has ignored requests from Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) \u2014 the Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Committee \u2014 to turn over her thesis, entitled \u201cKarl Marx\u2019s Economic Analysis and the Theory of Revolution in Das Kapital.\u201d Omarova wrote the paper during her time at Moscow State University, where she benefited from the V.I. Lenin Personal Academic Scholarship.\u201cWhile it appears that you have deleted any reference to your thesis in the version of your curriculum vitae (CV) that is currently available on the Cornell Law School website, the paper appeared on your CV as recently as April 2017,\u201d Toomey wrote on October 6, asking her to submit a copy of the thesis to the Senate Banking Committee by October 13.A Toomey spokesperson confirmed to The Daily Wire on Wednesday that Omarova has still not provided lawmakers with a copy of the document.Meanwhile, in a New York Magazine article that dismisses concerns about the radical nominee as \u201cludicrous red-baiting,\u201d Omarova claimed that she does not have the thesis.\u201cIt was a written-exam type of thing,\u201d Omarova told the outlet. \u201cWe were assigned mandatory topics, and I got assigned something about Karl Marx, economic theory, I don\u2019t even remember. Nobody took it seriously; it was not meant to be an actual academic exercise. All you had to do was basically copy from whatever the textbook said, and that was that. So I wrote that paper, got my degree. Literally the next day, I forgot about it, just like every other graduate in my class forgot about their papers.\u201dOmarova is slated to appear before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday. A member of Toomey\u2019s office told The Daily Wire that Republicans will question Omarova on her proposals to nationalize retail banking, use the government to allocate credit and capital, place government officials on the boards of important banking organizations, employ government price-setting, and leverage central planning for the \u201cgreening\u201d of the economy.Though opposition to Omarova\u2019s nomination is unrelated to her status as a Kazakh-American, Senate Republicans also expect to be labeled with a variety of \u201cisms\u201d by their Democratic colleagues.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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