Senate Democrats on Wednesday requested an inspector general probe of the acting Securities and Exchange Commission chairman’s moves to reconsider Obama-era rules, and suggested the Republican may have overstepped his authority.

Banking Committee ranking member Sherrod Brown of Ohio joined with Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and two others in asking the SEC inspector general for an investigation into the past few months’ moves by Michael Piwowar.

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