NEW: Mick Mulvaney (@CFPBDirector) - in opening testimony to Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - says, “while I have to be here by statute I don’t think I have to answer your questions if you take a look at actual statute that requires me to be here”

— Courtney Norris (@courtneyknorris) April 12, 2018

What would Congressman Mick Mulvaney have said to a CFPB director saying this in a testimony? https://t.co/D0BzHHKyeC

— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) April 12, 2018