Mary L. Schapiro: “It is a symptom of the times and a political culture that is quite frankly seriously 'nuts.'”

This time around, I have had more than a few people in my office weeping with fear about what might happen to them because one person or another was looking into their behavior.

The worst result I think we could have would be for investors to lose confidence generally again, as they did after Enron, in the quality and the integrity of financial statements.

The Dodd-Frank Act significantly changes the SEC's regulatory landscape.

Following the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, Congress passed legislation that is already reshaping the U.S. regulatory landscape.