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On the recordFebruary 10, 2017
This is an actual foreclosure document from one of my constituents. What is most amazing about this is that they are basically saying that this property should be seized and foreclosed on, saying that there was no one living there. But when one actually sees the service of the document, the service of the document shows that it was served at an address where somebody answered the door and took the document. So even in and of itself, you can see how ludicrous this operation was--just going through a robo- list of names, signing documents, and putting people out of their homes, when in reality, they were there living in them and should not have been foreclosed on. Many of these behaviors have been described by my colleagues, and I hope that we get to the bottom of this issue. We heard from victims of a foreclosure, where on a 98-year-old woman, being 27 cents short on a payment, and another where they changed the locks on her home in Minnesota in the middle of a blizzard. Is that what we did for Goldman Sachs? I don't think so. I think we gave them the keys to the Treasury. This behavior, the callousness of this issue, is another reason why I cannot support Mr. Mnuchin's nomination for Treasury Secretary. Mr. Mnuchin's answers to questions about the administration's tax reform plan are another issue. His tax reform policy and that of the administration just doesn't add up to me.…
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Maria Cantwell
Democratic · Washington
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Feb 10, 2017

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