Obama Picks a Prosecutor: Mary Jo White Appointed to Head SEC

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January 30, 2013     |    Discover more at Heritage's Enterprise and Free Markets webpage

Prosecutor Mary Jo White to Head SEC President Obama, moving quickly to complete the lineup for his second-term regulatory team, nominated attorney Mary Jo White last week to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The selection is a critical one, as the agency is still struggling to complete the rulemakings required under the Dodd–Frank financial regulation act, while facing pressure from the courts and Congress to improve the sometimes sketchy quality of its regulatory analysis. DOES MS. WHITE'S BACKGROUND PREPARE HER FOR THE TASK AT HAND? FIND OUT >>

Tales of Red Tape #38: OSHA Advances Worker Risk--Not Much Else If the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) regulated its own doings in the manner it does private business, the agency’s doors would surely be shuttered. So lousy is its record of accrediting workplace safety examiners that some applicants have waited 10 years for their paperwork to be processed. It’s gotten so bad, in fact, that OSHA officials actually jettisoned their internal performance measures rather than even attempt to make the grade. In other words, the agency stopped tracking its operations because the results were so dismal. READ WHY THIS IS BAD >>

Declining Union Membership Shows Labor Laws Need Modernizing U.S. labor laws do not meet the needs of modern American workers. The laws prevent union members from receiving individual raises and employers from giving non-union employees a formal voice on the job. Congress created these restrictions in the 1930s for a primarily industrial economy that no longer exists. The time has come for Congress to bring America’s labor laws into the 21st century. MORE ON THE DECLINE >>

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