Sense on Cents

Earlier this week, the SEC informed Fox Business News that it would not comply with a request for information based upon SEC Financial Regulatory Law H.R. 4173. Fortunately, some people in our country still care  about transparency, accountability, and integrity. To this end, thank you to a friend of Sense on Cents for sharing this recent release:

It brings the SEC back under the Freedom of Information (FOIA) Act after the Dodd-Frank financial reg bill provided them with an exemption.

ISSA INTRODUCES THE SEC FREEDOM OF INFORMATION RESTORATION ACT

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The following information was released by the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform:

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, today introduced H.R. 5924, the “SEC Freedom of Information Restoration Act” which will repeal section 9291 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that allows the SEC to not “disclose records or information” that are typically subjects of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

“Note this as just the latest example of Congress passing and the President signing legislation into law without fully understanding what’s in it,” Issa said. “Either that or the Administration knowingly orchestrated the inclusion of a provision that shields the SEC from the transparency and accountability this reform bill was supposed to represent. Regardless of intent, both Democrats and Republicans alike should agree that we cannot allow this regulatory body that failed to catch Allen Stanford‘s fraud and Bernie Madoff’s ponzi scheme to operate in secrecy. Hopefully, we can partner together and swiftly pass legislation I am introducing today to repeal Section 9291 and ensure that the SEC will be held to the highest possible standard of accountability and transparency.”

The SEC Freedom of Information Restoration Act was co-sponsored by House Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Spencer Bachus (R-AL) as well as by Reps. Brian Bilbray (R-CA), Dan Burton (R-IN), Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), John Duncan (R-TN), Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE), Jim Jordan (R-OH), Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO), John Mica (R-FL), Patrick McHenry (R-NC), Aaron Schock (R-IL) and Bill Shuster (R-PA).

In this corner, those who care to maintain the incestuous Wall Street-Washington relationship which stifled real regulatory oversight and brought our nation to its knees. In that corner, those who care  for transparency, accountability, and integrity and have had enough of the bulls#&% from regulators who failed our nation miserably and say one thing but do another.

Let’s get rrrrrready to rrrrrrrrumble!!!

LD

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