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On the recordApril 20, 2010
Well, if the gentleman would yield, those statistics make the case better than anything we could say or do. Under Christopher Cox, who was then the SEC Chairman and a former Member of this very body who was appointed during the Bush administration, during those years of 2003-2007, to have that kind of reduction in their actions, whether they're disgorgement or enforcement actions, and furthermore to only have 24 employees in that division responsible for the CSEs that were created in 2004, you can understand they were overworked and that, clearly, there was no intention to provide the kinds of safeguards that we needed.
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