Gary Gensler: “I was encouraged, Senator Collins, by what you said on that.”

Actually, sir, we follow the mandate. In 1996, Congress put in our statute that we had to do economic analysis, and we follow that.

If I can say, breaking the law and not liking the law are different than lack of clarity.

I think that the Congress' wisdom was to have an agency to oversee disclosure-based markets where issuers are asking the public to buy and sell their securities.

Under your leadership, the SEC is providing investors with the information they need to evaluate climate change risk.