Issa Statement on President's Response to SIGTARP Report Question |
Thursday, 23 July 2009 09:16 |
Obama on SIGTARP Report: "I don't know exactly what's been requested..."
WASHINGTON D.C. - Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Ranking Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Goverment Reform, released the following statement tonight responding to comments made by President Barack Obama in response to a question posed by Chicago Tribune reporter Christi Parsons regarding the scathing report issued by SIGTARP Neil Barofsky:
Q. Christi Parsons, Chicago Tribune: "Also, the TARP Inspector General recently said that your White House is withholding too much information on the bank bailouts, so my question for you is are you fulfilling your promise of transparency in the White House?"
A. President Obama: “Let me take a look at what exactly they say we have not provided, I think that we’ve provided much greater transparency than existed prior to our Administration coming in. It is a big program. I don’t know exactly what’s been requested. I’ll find out and I’ll have answer for you.”
SIGTARP Neil Barofsky’s Testimony to the House Committee on Oversight and Government: "...it [Treasuary] has repeatedly failed to adopt recommendations that SIGTARP believes are essential to providing basic transparency and fulfill Treasury’s stated commitment. Treasury’s default position should always be to require more disclosure rather than less and to provide the investors in TARP — the American taxpayers — as much information about what is being done with their money as possible. Unfortunately, in rejecting SIGTARP’s basic transparency recommendations, TARP has become a program in which taxpayers (i) are not being told what most of the TARP recipients are doing with their money, (ii) have still not been told how much their substantial investments are worth, and (iii) will not be told the full details of how their money is being invested.” |
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