Political Quotes

“Mr. President, today I rise to discuss H.R. 3606, the so- called JOBS Act. As chairman of the Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment of the Senate Banking Committee, I wish all of my colleagues to know this legislation, as it is currently drafted, is not ready to become law--and if it does, it could have unintended consequences that will hurt investors, seniors, and average American families. One of the supposed premises behind this legislation is that if we just deregulate the securities market, then more companies will choose to issue public stock. The only reason they have been deterred from going to the public markets, according to this view, is the excessive regulatory burdens placed upon them. The Banking Committee has been holding a series of hearings on different provisions in this legislation, and the reason we have discovered there have been fewer IPOs does not appear to be connected to regulatory burdens in any real way, but it appears to be more connected to economic and geographic factors. That being said, many of us hear on a daily basis, despite the recent financial crisis, about how the American regulatory system is making us less competitive, especially in the context of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. In fact, in testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, Lynn Turner, a former SEC chief accountant, states that the data says otherwise.…”