VAN HOLLEN, WARREN, REED CALL ON FED WATCHDOG TO INVESTIGATE VICE CHAIR BOWMAN'S PRIVATE WALL STREET DINNER DURING FED'S BLACKOUT PERIOD

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen issued the following press release:

Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, and Jack Reed (D-R.I.) sent a letter to Michael Horowitz, the Inspector General at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, calling for an investigation into Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman's recent decision to speak and answer questions at a closed-door dinner on Wall Street during the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) "blackout period."

According to recent reporting from the Wall Street Journal, Vice Chair Bowman attended an "invitation-only, private dinner that Ban...