Mel Watt Accuser Might Testify Before House Panel
Source: Roll Call
The House Financial Services Committee might hear testimony Thursday from a Federal Housing Finance Agency employee who has accused former Rep. Mel Watt, D-N.C, the agency’s director, of sexual harassment, the same day Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused the judge of sexual assault, are scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The Financial Services panel had already scheduled an FHFA oversight hearing for Thursday, where Watt is among the invited witnesses. Watt’s accuser, Simone Grimes, requested to testify at the hearing, according to a letter ranking member Maxine Waters, D-Calif., sent Monday to Chairman Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, asking he allow Grimes to do so.
Hensarling spokeswoman Sarah Flaim said the committee had been in contact with Grimes’s attorney before Waters’s letter and requested she meet with staff to present her claims and supporting evidence, “as is our regular practice for anyone making claims of this nature.”
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