I appreciate the chairman yielding, and I simply want to associate myself with his remarks. I also have a deep respect for the gentleman from Pennsylvania. I appreciate what he is trying to do, but as the chairman did mention, this does…
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I appreciate the chairman's remarks and would also recognize Lucas Wood, who is on our staff as a fellow from the Department of Defense this year. Also, the chairman and I express our gratitude to the associate members of our subcommittee…
Do you inherently see something wrong with this business model?
Well, does the SEC assume that they have any responsibility to their workers, or can they just fire them willy-nilly?
I met with these workers this morning. They were making $13 an hour. Their CEO made 11.
In the SEC's eyes, who is the corporate responsibility to? Is it to just the shareholders? Or do they owe a duty to the entire corporate enterprise, including workers?
Should the SEC play a larger oversight role in overseeing stock buybacks as this has been funded by firing American workers?
Recently, in my home State of Indiana, 2,100 workers were let go by a highly profitable company in order to get $3-an-hour jobs to Mexico.
We experienced over 47,000 drug-related overdose deaths last year.
I applaud Colombia's efforts to bring the FARC, ELN to the peace table and to bring peace to the country.
Anything that this committee and task force can do, again, to raise the veil, drop the curtain, whatever, to expose the beneficial owners of those corporations I believe would have a significant impact.
I believe you are being fair, and again you are very accurate.
We really need to tighten the noose on the beneficial ownership issue and lower the curtain once and for all.
Listen, terror organizations like Hezbollah, that is really now a hybrid terror organization...
The importance of shell--the anonymity related to those shell corporations in those accounts.
What it really comes down to is, if not ungoverned space, undergoverned space, places like the tri-border area.
What most folks in America don't realize is what has been going on in Mexico with respect to drug trafficking...