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Bob Menendez: “Are you aware that, if you are confirmed as Treasury Secretary, you would become one of three board members of the…”

On the recordJanuary 18, 2017
Are you aware that, if you are confirmed as Treasury Secretary, you would become one of three board members of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation that has the power to either accept or deny a pension plan termination application, such as that which could occur with a Sears bankruptcy, making the Federal Government cover Sears' pension tab?
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey

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Menendez questions Mnuchin's potential conflict of interest regarding Sears' pension fund.

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