A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that President Joseph R. Biden must dismiss Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg from his employment at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Bill: 118-sres-742
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Introduced: 2024-06-20
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Latest action: action_date: 2024-06-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text: CR S4182)

Summaries:
action_date: 2024-06-20
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This resolution calls on President Joseph R. Biden to dismiss Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg, condemns any employees at the FDIC who contributed to a toxic workplace, and calls for appropriate investigations.</p>

tv_txt: III 118th CONGRESS 2d Session S. RES. 742 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 20, 2024 Ms. Ernst submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs RESOLUTION Expressing the sense of the Senate that President Joseph R. Biden must dismiss Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg from his employment at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Whereas, on November 13, 2023, the Wall Street Journal published an expose entitled Strip Clubs, Lewd Photos and a Boozy Hotel: The Toxic Atmosphere at Bank Regulator FDIC detailing the extremely toxic, misogynistic, workplace culture rife with sexual harassment and other serious misconduct at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (referred to in this preamble as FDIC ); Whereas, on November 16, 2023, the Wall Street Journal published a second expose entitled FDIC Chair, Known for Bad Temper, Ignored Bad Behavior in Workplace ; Whereas, following the public revelation of this scandal, the FDIC enlisted a third-party fact-finding team to investigate the workplace culture of the FDIC; Whereas the FDIC published the report of the third-party investigators on May 7, 2024; Whereas the report of the third-party investigators found that, under the leadership of Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg, the FDIC has failed to provide a workplace safe from sexual harassment, discrimination, and other interpersonal misconduct ; Whereas, under the leadership of Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg, FDIC employees fear retaliation and do not trust the FDIC to investigate or address allegations of improper workplace conduct; Whereas investigators determined not a single FDIC employee faced serious discipline after being found to have engaged in workplace misconduct; Whereas investigators determined Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg routinely acts with inappropriate anger and antagonism toward his employees; Whereas reports indicate Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg and his leadership team have been directly involved in high-level examples of sexism, harassment, and discrimination and failed to properly discipline those individuals responsible; Whereas investigators determined the anger and antagonism of Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg may hinder his ability to establish trust and confidence in leading meaningful culture change, and so too may his apparent inability or unwillingness to recognize how others experience certain difficult interactions with him ; and Whereas investigators determined that for the current challenges plaguing the FDIC to be overcome, there must be a change in leadership: Now, therefore, be it

That the Senate— (1) condemns those employees of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (referred to in this resolution as FDIC ), known and unknown, who turned the FDIC workplace culture toxic or looked the other way while others did so; (2) demands that President Joseph R. Biden dismiss Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg from employment at the FDIC immediately, as he no longer holds the confidence of the Senate or of the people of the United States; and (3) calls on those individuals remaining in FDIC leadership positions to take all appropriate steps to investigate all allegations of criminality and impropriety to hold bad actors accountable for their actions.