The leaders of two Republican-led committees are quietly locked in a behind-the-scenes turf battle.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), who helms the Senate Banking Committee, sent a letter this week to Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the chair and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary panel, saying he was “surprised” to learn that Judiciary had convened a hearing on the history of Credit Suisse’s servicing of Nazi-linked bank accounts.
“While this subject matter is of historic importance, its connection to the Judiciary Committee’s jurisdiction is less clear,” Scott wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO.
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