Allegations of widespread racial and gender discrimination at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have prompted an investigation by a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Commissioner Peter Kirsanow, the only Republican on the eight-member commission, wrote to CFPB General Counsel Meredith Fuchs on Tuesday that he is concerned “employees of the bureau are engaged in systematic discrimination against women and minorities.”

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