Pat Toomey (a Republican member of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee) is trying to force the nominee for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC), to turn over her 1989 honors thesis from the University of Michigan about Karl Marx.

Officially, the Biden administration Saule Omarova, a Kazakh-born lawyer, was nominated — who has been characterized by critics as both anti-bank and anti-crypto —Assumes the role of financial regulatorSeptember 29, 2009. Toomey suggests that the thesis could show Omarova’s sympathies to Marxist views.