Silenced or turned off. For those watching online, youre welcome to send questions or comments anytime, emailing speaker at heritage. Org. Leading our conversation this afternoon is david burton, our senior fellow for Economic Policy and heritages institute for economic freedom. Mr. Burton before joining heritage served as general counsel at the National Small business association, also been chief Financial Officer and general counsel of the alliance for retirement prosperity, and was a partner at the argus group, a Public Policy and Government Relations firm. Please join me in welcoming david burton. David. [ applause ] well, thank you for coming. It is my pleasure to introduce to you commissioner michael piwowar. He was appointed to the securities and Exchange Commission by president obama and was sworn in in august of 2013. He was designated by trump to be acting chairman of the commission and served in that capacity from january 23rd of this year to may 4th. His term expires in jun
[inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] the meeting will come to order without objection. The chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. This hearing is entitled examining the sec agenda operations in fy 2018 budget request. I now recognize myself or three minutes to give an opening statement. I warn everybody i will take a lot longer because there is unanticipated news. First, before proceeding to the purpose of this hearing, i do want to know for all my colleagues that as we begin this hearing today, in 318, b3 18 of this very building, the rayburn building, our friend, our colleague, the Great American hero and patriot sam johnson is being honored by having that very room b3 18 named after him. I think we all know he is a decorated war hero who served his nation with great courage, great valor in korea and vietnam and spent seven years and ex
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Press, former chairman Richard Greene never agreed to the vote and former chairman leavitt rarely took the matter to a vote unless there was a 50 vote. Are there any areas you can work on with the other two commissioners to reach a unanimous decision and if so give us some examples. We certainly strive for consensus. We know everything is not unanimous. I havent figure verified it but 65 of those a unanimous but obviously it is still a percentage that has not been unanimous. I discussed with you, mister chairman and senator brown and other members of the committee as well, one thing i found as chairman, striving for that consensus, unanimity on our rulemaking, so many mandated rulemakings have been particularly the doddfrank act which the controversy was adopted continued into the implementation of those rules that we end up with an extra challenge reaching consensus because of that. In 2013 you post a comment, study on Asset Management in the office of Financial Research requested thi
Homeland Security Committee ranking democrat congressman thompson of mississippi will discuss threats to the u. S. Homeland in light of sundays mass shooting in orlando, florida. And then congressman wittman on u. S. Efforts to combat isis overseas and whether the military is prepared should the current tactics be changed. And California Democratic representative jackie spear will discuss the latest on the mass shooting and what lawmakers learned from tuesdays closed door briefing with National Security officials. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal beginning live 7 00 a. M. Eastern wednesday morning. Join the discussion. Securities Exchange Commission chair Mary Jo White testified at an oversight hearing and was asked about the effectiveness of corporate disclosures and wall street regulations. Senator Richard Shelby chairs the Senate Banking committee. This morning, we will receive testimony from Securities Exchange chair Mary Jo White. Oversight of the commissions an importan