Full Committee Hearing

Spurring Job Growth Through Capital Formation While Protecting Investors

Date:   Thursday, December 1, 2011 Time:   10:00 AM

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COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING, AND URBAN AFFAIRS will meet in OPEN SESSION to conduct a hearing entitled “Spurring Job Growth Through Capital Formation While Protecting Investors”. The witnesses on Panel I will be: The Honorable Kay Bailey Hutchison, of Texas; The Honorable Mark L. Pryor, of Arkansas; and The Honorable Scott P. Brown, of Massachusetts. The witnesses on Panel II will be: Ms. Meredith Cross, Director, Division of Corporation Finance, Securities and Exchange Commission; Mr. Jack Herstein, President, North American Securities Administrators Association; Professor John C. Coffee, Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, Columbia University Law School; Mr. Chris Gheysens, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Wawa Inc.; Mr. Scott Cutler, Executive Vice President and Co-Head of U.S. Listings and Cash Execution, NYSE Euronext; and Mr. Edward S. Knight, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Nasdaq OMX Group.

Witnesses

Majority Statements

  1. Senator Tim Johnson

Witness Panel 1

  1. The Honorable Scott P. Brown
    Senator
    U.S. Senate
  2. The Honorable Kay Bailey Hutchison
    Senator
    U.S. Senate
  3. The Honorable Mark L. Pryor
    Senator
    U.S. Senate

Witness Panel 2

  1. Professor John C. Coffee
    Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law
    Columbia University Law School
  2. Ms. Meredith Cross
    Director
    Division of Corporation Finance
  3. Mr. Scott Cutler
    Executive Vice President and Co-Head of U.S. Listings and Cash Execution
    NYSE Euronext
  4. Chris Gheysens
    Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
    Wawa Inc.
  5. Mr. Jack Herstein
    President
    North American Securities Administrators Association
  6. Mr. Edward S. Knight
    Executive Vice President and General Counsel
    Nasdaq OMX Group