Building and sustaining democracy should be a first principle, not an afterthought.
America must set the right example.
I felt it was paramount to use my first policy hearing as chairman this Congress to examine democracy as a fundamental American value.
democracy as a fundamental American value, and how it drives our foreign policy.
authoritarian governments are seizing more and more power, dismantling core democratic institutions.
I would like to turn our attention to racial inequity in the stock market.
Is the lack of stock ownership among minority families an impending factor in their ability to build wealth?
I believe that shareholder should know if their corporate executives are using their money as a piggy bank for their causes.
The problem is that corporate America has a diversity problem.
I would like be on them like white on rice, but as a community I want us to know who is diversifying.
Do you agree that greater diversity tends to lead to better corporate performance, as found by McKinsey and others?