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On the recordApril 11, 2016
Do you have any concern at all, for you, that SEC is headed toward and being directed by Congress, by the way, or by an outside entity, toward a more political position, rather than being a fair-minded arbitrator in some things to be able to take in some additional disclosure requirements?
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford questions SEC's independence from political influence.

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