Raskin want to misuse bank regulation to impose environmental policies that Congress has refused to enact,” Senate banking committee ranking member Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) said Thursday during the hearing. That has riled up Republicans, in particular, who say that Bloom Raskin would use bank regulation to impose policies they disagree with. “The decisions that the Fed makes today will go a long way to determining whether tomorrow’s economy is one that remains susceptible to more chaos and vulnerability or builds economic security and resilience,” she wrote in a May 2020 New York Times op-ed. Controversially, she’s advocated to limit the Fed’s investments in oil and gas. Over the years, Bloom Raskin has pointed out that the Fed and other federal regulators need to be conscious of the risk posed by climate change. Here’s what you need to know: So what does she want to do about climate change? Sherrod Brown, her nomination has proved controversial thanks to her previous statements in support of the federal regulators taking more action on climate change. While she’s arguably one of the “most qualified people ever nominated for the Federal Reserve” according to Sen. Sarah Bloom Raskin-who served as a Fed governor and deputy secretary of the Treasury during the Obama administration-was in front of Congress on Thursday morning, along with President Joe Biden’s two other nominees for Fed governors, to secure the nomination for the role of Federal Reserve’s vice chair for supervision.