Lisa Murkowski commended Powell for speaking out in DOJ inquiry

Lisa Murkowski commended Powell for speaking out in DOJ inquiry

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) told Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell after the start of the Justice Department investigation into him that she was glad Powell was speaking out against the inquiry. Murkowski said that, in a phone call, Powell told her he was planning to be “pushing back very forcefully” against the subpoena. “It was news to me … that the administration was moving forward with it, so I expressed a little bit of my surprise, and …