Thank you very much, Mr. Powner, for your testimony.
And are they enabled and empowered to create savings within the agencies?
I think that is an excellent suggestion, working with our subcommittee chairs to try to get that information.
Doesn't it make sense to you that this might be an area that is ripe for a legislative solution or legislative enactment...
We need a financial system that is safe and sound because what happens on Wall Street touches every American family.
In a couple of months, we will mark the fourth anniversary of the enactment of comprehensive Wall Street reforms aimed a...
Do you feel you have the necessary expertise on staff to adequately issue and enforce the rules required by Dodd-Frank?
I assume that isn't the position of the SEC at this point.
This information will be instructive as we further consider the budget proposals.
Thank you very much for that.
Chair Wetjen, how are you coming on the rules that you are promulgating, the ones that are in the pipeline?
I keep hearing from folks back home about this issue.
One of the key components of Dodd-Frank was a mandate that the SEC adopt a number of new rules relating to credit rating...
I think as we look at the authorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, potentially putting that together with ...
It has been absolutely devastating, the long terms effects sequestration has had on Indian Country.
BIE schools lost $42.2 million as a result of sequestration.
Tribal Head Start programs lost $11.9 million as a result of sequestration, impacting 25,000 children in 26 States.
This was a painful, unnecessary, arbitrary cut to communities that can ill afford them.
