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Today we will receive testimony from securities and Exchange Commission chairman jay clayton regarding the work and the agenda of the sec. Thank you, mr. Chairman, for attending here today. Oversight of the sec is a critical function of this committee and it has an important threepart mission, to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly and efficient markets and facilitate capital formation. No one part of this mission is anymore important than the other. They increase transparency and trust in the u. S. Stock market, providing investors with what they need to make informed Investment Decisio...

Fair, orderly and efficient markets and facilitate capital formation. No one part of this mission is anymore important than the other. They increase transparency and trust in the u. S. Stock market, providing investors with what they need to make informed Investment Decisions. It also helps investors participate on a fair footing so that they can prepare for important milestones in their lives such as retirement, college or other life changing evep events. Its critical that the sec continue with this mission. At the same time it must be cognizant it could carry risks to the very investors it s...

Tell me a little bit more about this city. Well, portland, maine, to start on your initial point, is actually the First Portland in the United States. Portland, oregon, is the one that stole our name. It wasnt stolen as much as it was given to it. The two people who founded this city decided they both wanted to name it after their hometown, so they tossed a coin, and the guy from portland, maine, won. First Parish Church is ahead of us, its one of the oldest churches, working parishes in the city continuously. Its changed locations and, in fact, the original building was wooden. The wooden ste...

Some of these authors have a will be appearing on booktv. You can watch them on our website, booktv. Org. Often i think of the beautiful town that is seated by the sea and often in fossil upanddown the pleasant streets of that town and my youth comes back to me. Welcome to portland, maine, on booktv. Located on a peninsula, it was the original capital of maine and started as a fishing and trading village. Today its the largest city in the state with a population of about 66,000. It still has strong ties to its maritime history with lobstering and tourism in its largest economic drivers. With h...

Lobster boats going back and forth all the time, you see the islands, sailboats, all the activities that probably people think of a maine visit would be. We take a boat to fort gorgeous, a civil war era just off the portland kos. We are on hog island ledge. Where they built for gorgeous in 1858 to help defend portland harbor. We have completed an 18 6 it was completed in 1865 and was built with two sister forts off to the south. Its camel on how silent. They were designed to work in conjunction with each other to defend the harbor. Everyone thinks for gorgeous is a civil war fort when it was f...