(Bloomberg) -- Betsy Duke rose to the head of Wells Fargo & Co.’s board two years ago as part of the bank’s efforts to clean up a flurry of scandals. Now, she’s facing calls to step down ahead of dramatic congressional hearings set for this week.

Democrats atop the House Financial Services Committee are making no secret of their intent to target Duke, Wells Fargo’s chair, and other past and current leaders, issuing a scathing report last week on the bank’s interactions with regulators. One large shareholder has already said he thinks she should go.

Duke, 67, the most senior woman in U.S. finance, will have her chance to address the criticism. She and fellow director James Quigley are scheduled to testify to the panel of lawmakers, whose bipartisan lashings already helped prompt two previous chief executive officers to step down.

“Duke and Quigley failed in their responsibility as board members, and I just think they should be shown the door,” Chairwoman Maxine Waters told journalists last week, a preview of what’s to come.

The hearings begin Tuesday with an appearance by CEO Charlie Scharf, less than five months into his tenure. The panel will seek his thoughts on next steps for what it calls “the bank that broke America’s trust.”

Duke, who’s been on the board since 2015, and Quigley, who joined in 2013, get their turn on Wednesday. They’ll be grilled on “the role of the board of directors in the bank’s egregious pattern of consumer abuses.”

It’s a panel that’s repeatedly dragged bank leaders to Capitol Hill for uncomfortable questions on a broad range of topics. Last year, seven bankers – including Scharf in his previous role as CEO of Bank of New York Mellon Corp. -- faced queries on everything from China to climate change to gunmakers to people living in Guam.

“The knives will be out,” Capital Alpha Partners analyst Ian Katz said. “They need to come prepared.”

The public is likely to get a tale of two Wells Fargos. The board has been touting its turnaround efforts after a series of scandals that began with the 2016 revelation that employees opened millions of potentially fake accounts to hit sales targets. An annual filing last year trumpeted a refreshed board with beefed-up oversight and governance practices. When Scharf got the top job, Duke said he would advance a “continued transformation.”

But the report last week by Democrats was full of detailed accusations of board and management doing too little. That prompted external calls for Duke to leave, and whispers inside the firm about when she might do so.

“I think she should step down immediately,” Ryan Cohen, the Chewy.com founder whose stake in Wells Fargo exceeds $300 million, said of Duke in an interview. “She should’ve stepped down a long time ago, frankly.”

A spokesperson said Duke and Wells Fargo declined to comment.

The committee’s Republican minority published a separate report last week with similar criticisms of the firm. The two reports differed over the role of regulators in the scandals with Democrats saying authorities share blame for the bank’s failings while Republicans lauded enforcement efforts under President Donald Trump.

Inside Wells Fargo, Scharf is preparing to answer questions on what he’s doing to get back in the good graces of customers, regulators and the public. He’s met with nearly half the House Financial Services Committee, including Waters, since taking over in October, people with knowledge of the meetings said.

He’ll be able to point to changes he’s made since taking the helm, including adding new leaders and settling past probes. And he can tout the bank’s recent announcements on minimum-wage increases, limited-fee bank accounts and lending to recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Scharf “can come on as a hard-nosed leader who is going to do the bidding of the public and fix things,” Davia Temin, founder of crisis consultancy Temin & Co., said in an interview. “America still loves a comeback kid.”

The board members face a different task, Temin said. “It’s harder to be part of the problem and then the solution.”

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