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   EXCLUSIVE: House Small Business Committee Republicans are   
   pressing demands for Treasury Department Secretary Janet Yellen   
   to testify before their committee on the Hill, requesting her   
   updated 2022 public calendar.   
      
   The letter sent to Yellen Monday, led by ranking member Rep.   
   Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo., states that the secretary's   
   background and experience would help the nation address   
   "increasing prices, growing supply chain disruptions, and   
   continued labor shortages" as inflation continues to surge.   
      
   "Small business owners and their employees deserve nothing less   
   than to hear your testimony before this Committee on what steps   
   are now being taken to address inflation," they write.   
      
   The lawmakers also seek Yellen's testimony regarding the   
   Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was established to give   
   small businesses assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic. There   
   has been growing scrutiny of the program, which faced challenges   
   and fraud allegations, that Republicans say demands the   
   secretary's attention.   
      
   However, the Treasury Department told Fox News Digital it   
   doesn't plan on sending Yellen to testify before the Small   
   Business Committee, because her deputy can stand in her place,   
   and the agency already publicly releases her calendars.   
      
   "Secretary Yellen looks forward to continuing her robust   
   engagement with Congress, which has included testifying over a   
   dozen times before the House and the Senate, including six hours   
   of testimony last week before Congress," a Treasury spokesperson   
   told Fox News Digital in response to the letter.   
      
   RAND PAUL DEMANDS YELLEN TESTIFY BEFORE SMALL BUSINESS PANEL AS   
   AMERICANS STRUGGLE WITH INFLATION   
      
   "The Deputy Treasury Secretary has legal authority to fulfill   
   this requirement to testify before the Small Business   
   Committees, and he has already agreed and offered to appear   
   before them. We hope the Committees will allow him to appear to   
   testify."   
      
   The spokesperson also noted that the department does release   
   Yellen's calendars publicly on a quarterly basis.   
      
   The last batch of calendars on Treasury's website are from the   
   October-December 2021 quarter. The department did not say when   
   the first quarter 2022 calendars will be made public.   
      
   The House Republicans demand the agency provide calendar entries   
   between Jan. 1, 2022, and the present by June 27.   
      
   The back and forth between House and Senate Small Business   
   Committee members and Yellen has been constant over the last   
   year. Lawmakers take issue with the fact that Yellen has   
   testified before more than a dozen committees on Capitol Hill   
   but has skirted public appearances where she would discuss   
   issues of import to small businesses.   
      
   "It has been 408 days since the statutory deadline for you to   
   testify this Committee has lapsed," Luetkemeyer wrote in the   
   letter sent Monday evening. "I am frustrated and concerned over   
   the fact that, despite acknowledging the importance of   
   supporting small businesses through our nation's economic   
   recovery, you continue to refuse to address the only House   
   committee solely dedicated to assessing and investigating the   
   problems of small businesses."   
      
   Across the Capitol, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., led Senate   
   Republicans last week in a letter demanding Yellen fulfill her   
   constitutional obligation to testify before the Senate's small   
   business panel as inflation reaches historic heights.   
      
   The department's assistant secretary for legislative affairs,   
   Jonathan Davidson, told senators the agency had determined that   
   the deputy secretary could legally fulfill the requirement in   
   place of Yellen.   
      
   However, the senators took issue with that determination in   
   their letter Thursday, writing: "The law is clear. The Secretary   
   is required to testify, and this duty is not delegable.   
   Therefore, the Deputy Secretary is not authorized to satisfy   
   your legal obligation to testify before the Committee."   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-double-down-demands-   
   yellen-testify-request-updated-calendars   
      
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