Good afternoon. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation and the Louis Lehrman auditorium. Welcome to those that join us on the website on all of these occasions and for those here in the house we would ask a courtesy check to see that the various mobile devices have been silenced or turned off and for those watching online youre welcome to send comments anytime by emailing the speaker. Leading the conversation this afternoon is David Perkins senior fellow for Economic Policy at the institute for economic freedom. Before joining heritage he served as the general counsel witgeneral counselwith the natis association and seven chief Financial Officer and general counsel of the alliance for retirement prosperity and was a part or at the growth of Public Policy and government relations. Please join me in welcoming david. [applause] thank you for coming. Its my pleasure to introduce to you the commissioner michael buehler. He was appointed to the securities and Exchange Commission by president oba
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
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
Willing, at least initially, until they find out theyre in a trap and become literally enslaved. Are you aware of Victim Services program that are particularly useful in dealing with the victim cooperation . Is there any social science, any experience out there that would help us do a better job of getting cooperation from the victims of trafficking . Well, of the 15 programs that we looked at, those grant programs, we also conducted sight visits to various places within the u. S. We talked to a number of Victim Service providers, as well as a number of Law Enforcement officials. They told us that while victims cooperation can be difficult, part of the reason its difficult because the victim fears talking to the Police Officer or to the Law Enforcement official but fear retaliation by the trafficker. In some cases, you could have a case where its not just the victim. Its not just the person that is being trafficked, but the trafficker might actually have someone from their family, for