Zoe Lofgren: “I think there has been a lot of talk about transparency today. We have had a transparent process in the committees, 15…”

“I think there has been a lot of talk about transparency today. We have had a transparent process in the committees, 15 hours of hearings, but this repeals a rider that was privately put on an appropriations bill by Republicans to prevent the SEC from doing something that they want to do. Let's get real. I mean, this actually just undoes a secret rider on an appropriations bill. This is the way bad law gets made. We are here in the middle of the day, in public, debating amendments, not secretly putting little riders on appropriations bills that hamstrung the SEC for making sure that there is sunlight on what corporations are doing. I thank the gentleman for yielding.”