The SEC's approach too often entails making decisions for investors rather than providing them a framework within which to make their own choices.

If a million investors want the SEC to require public companies to disclose corporate political contributions... will you support them?

Advice and consent is about making individualized good faith judgments, and I think your record gives the American people reason to be concerned about your nomination.

Recognizes that too much disclosure can harm the investors for whom it is purportedly designed.

So, my question is, Professor Fairfax, if you are confirmed as an SEC Commissioner, will you oppose the appointment of a PCAOB chairman who does not meet those legal requirements?

Madam President, today the Senate will vote on the confirmation of Dr. John King to be the next Secretary of Education. While there is only 1 year left in the Obama Presidency, this is still one of the most important jobs in Washington…

In November the President introduced a Memorandum about how agencies should mitigate the impact on the environment of their actions and the actions that they approve, and the document outlines some pretty common sense steps.

Attempts to characterize this Presidential Memorandum as a radical, new, anti-development policy, sounds like to me it is just grasping at straws.

The Memorandum seems to aim for long lasting, meaningful offsets that the American people can be sure are actually happening.

Mr. President, there is a vacancy on the most important Court in America, and the message from Senate Republicans is crystal clear: Forget the Constitution. It doesn't matter who President Obama nominates because the Republicans will allow…

In recent years the Forest Service budget has been dominated by one thing, the cost of fighting wildfires.