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If confirmed, I will uphold the enforcement mission of the SEC as set forth by Congress.

And above all, it means making sure our markets serve the needs of working families.

If confirmed as SEC chair, I will work with my fellow commissioners, the SEC's exceptional staff, and the members of Congress to ensure our markets remain the world's best.

It is following the facts and the law where the facts and the law take you...

I think that it does bring efficiency to many pension to have proxy advisers. It's a service that helps pension funds and investors through the proxy season.

I had the honor of working on the Senate Committee for Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs under the leadership of Senator Paul Sarbanes, a great public servant we recently lost.

I think then the SEC has a role to play to help bring some consistency and comparability to those guidelines.

I think technology has provided greater access, but it also raises interesting questions, and the one that you mentioned about 'gamification' also raises interesting questions about what does it mean when balloons and confetti are…

I think, as I teach at MIT on these subjects, that these innovations have been a catalyst for change.

I would work with fellow commissioners to both promote the new innovation but also, at the core, ensure core investor protection.

When investors turn to financial professionals for advice and recommendations about their investments, advice that may be critical to their retirement security or their ability to fund a child's college education, they deserve advice that…

I will work with the Office of Human Resources and the SEC staff to ensure that the agency is able to recruit and retain the workforce needed.

That means strengthening transparency and accountability in our markets, so people can invest with confidence, and be protected from fraud and manipulation.

Would you commit to making offenses against senior citizens an enforcement priority?

It is the investor community that gets to decide what is material to that.

I think that every day on the job I am going to be animated by working families and protecting investors as a key mandate of the agency.

If confirmed, I look forward to meeting with you and your staff and having a dialog on this.

I do believe in cost benefit analysis in dealing with any future regulation, or doing away with a regulation.