Anthony Charles Zinni is a former United States Marine Corps general and a former Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM). From 2001 to 2003,he served as a special envoy for the United States to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. From 2017 to 2019,he served as a special envoy to help resolve the Qatar diplomatic crisis.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government,created in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The primary purpose of the SEC is to enforce the law against market manipulation.
John Francis Reed is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Rhode Island,a seat he was first elected to in 1996. A member of the Democratic Party,he was the U.S. representative for Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district from 1991 to 1997. Reed graduated from the United States Military Academy and Harvard University,serving in the U.S. Army as an active officer from 1971 to 1979. He is the dean of Rhode Island's congressional delegation.
Charles Christopher Cox is an American attorney and politician who served as chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,a 17-year Republican member of the United States House of Representatives,and member of the White House staff in the Reagan Administration. Prior to his Washington service he was a practicing attorney,teacher,and entrepreneur. Following his retirement from government in 2009,he returned to law practice and currently serves as a director,trustee,and advisor to several for-profit and nonprofit organizations.
David Adam Smith is an American politician and retired attorney serving as the U.S. representative for Washington's 9th congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party,Smith previously served in the Washington State Senate.
Benjamin Louis Cardin is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Maryland,a seat he has held since 2007. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously was the U.S. representative for Maryland's 3rd congressional district from 1987 to 2007. Cardin served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1967 to 1987 and as Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1979 to 1987,the youngest person to hold the position in history. In his half-century career as an elected official,he has never lost an election.
Gregory Paul Walden is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Oregon's 2nd congressional district from 1999 to 2021. He is a Republican. Walden is the son of three-term Oregon State Representative Paul E. Walden. In October 2019,Walden announced that he would not run for reelection in 2020.
The Investment Company Act of 1940 is an act of Congress which regulates investment funds. It was passed as a United States Public Law on August 22,1940,and is codified at 15 U.S.C. §§ 80a-1–80a-64. Along with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,the Investment Advisers Act of 1940,and extensive rules issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission;it is central to financial regulation in the United States. It has been updated by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010. It is the primary source of regulation for mutual funds and closed-end funds,now a multi-trillion dollar investment industry. The 1940 Act also impacts the operations of hedge funds,private equity funds and even holding companies.
John Greg Ganske is an American politician,plastic surgeon,and retired U.S. Army reserve lieutenant colonel from Iowa. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003 and was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from Iowa in 2002.
Daniel Edward Lungren is an American politician and lawyer who served as the U.S. representative for California's 3rd congressional district from 2005 to 2013. A member of the Republican Party,during his tenure,the district covered most of Sacramento County,portions of Solano County,as well as all of Alpine County,Amador County and Calaveras County.
Lynn Morley Martin is an American businesswoman and former politician who served as the 21st United States secretary of labor under President George H. W. Bush from 1991 to 1993. A member of the Republican Party,she previously represented Illinois in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1991 and served as a Illinois senator from 1979 to 1980,as well as Illinois House representative from 1977 to 1979.
The Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA),also known as the Wheeler-Rayburn Act,was a US federal law giving the Securities and Exchange Commission authority to regulate,license,and break up electric utility holding companies. It limited holding company operations to a single state,thus subjecting them to effective state regulation. It also broke up any holding companies with more than two tiers,forcing divestitures so that each became a single integrated system serving a limited geographic area. Another purpose of the PUHCA was to keep utility holding companies engaged in regulated businesses from also engaging in unregulated businesses. The act was based on the conclusions and recommendations of the 1928-35 Federal Trade Commission investigation of the electric industry. On March 12,1935,President Franklin D. Roosevelt released a report he commissioned by the National Power Policy Committee. This report became the template for the PUHCA. The political battle over its passage was one of the bitterest of the New Deal,and was followed by eleven years of legal appeals by holding companies led by the Electric Bond and Share Company,which finally completed its breakup in 1961.
Samuel Howard Sloan is an American perennial candidate and former broker-dealer. In 1978,he was the last non-lawyer to argue a case pro se before the United States Supreme Court. The court eventually prohibited non-lawyers from arguing cases before them in 2013.
Thomas W. "Tom" Ewing is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives and the Illinois State House of Representatives. Ewing was a state representative from 1974 to 1991,and a U.S. Congressman representing the 15th district of Illinois from July 2,1991 until his retirement on January 3,2001. In January 1995 he was named a Deputy Republican House Whip. While a U.S. Congressman,Thomas Ewing was considered to be a Conservative,favoring a smaller,less intrusive government,but more on economic issues than on social ones.
Robert Freeman Smith,commonly known as Bob Smith,was an American Republican politician who represented Oregon in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995 and from 1997 to 1999.
Dennis Alan "Denny" Smith is an American businessman and former United States congressman from the state of Oregon. A native of the state,he served in the Air Force before working in the airline industry and taking over the family's newspaper business. A Republican,he served ten years in Congress from 1981 until 1991. His father was former Oregon Governor Elmo Smith.
The 2006 congressional elections in Minnesota were held on November 7,2006 to determine who would represent the state of Minnesota in the United States House of Representatives.
North American Co. v. Securities and Exchange Commission,327 U.S. 686 (1946),is a United States Supreme Court case holding that a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) order under the Public Utility Holding Company Act (PUHCA) directing a public utility holding company to divest its securities of all companies except for one electric company did not violate the Commerce Clause or the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
David Paul Weber is an American criminalist,and the former Assistant Inspector General for Investigations at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Weber was a whistleblower who reported allegations about foreign espionage against the stock exchanges,and misconduct in the Bernard L. Madoff and R. Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme investigations. In June 2013,the SEC settled with Weber his whistleblower protection and U.S. District Court lawsuits,paying him one of the largest federal employee whistleblower settlements ever. In 2014,In Bed with Wall Street author Larry Doyle named Weber as one of his "top 5 whistleblowers". On July 30,2015,Weber was recognized by six United States Senators and one member of the House of Representatives at the First Congressional Celebration of National Whistleblower Appreciation Day. On August 5,2021,Weber met with the President,Speaker of the House,and Senators at the signing of H.R. 3325,the awarding of the Congressional Gold Medal for those officers who lost their lives at the Capitol Insurrection,as he represents one of the deceased police officers and his widow. Weber is now a forensic accounting professor at the Perdue School,Salisbury University. As part of his teaching duties,he is a special investigator for the Maryland State's Attorneys Offices in two adjoining counties,and a Virginia financial crimes state prosecutor in the neighboring Virginia county. He supervises his students who act as intern investigators on financial crime cases.
Electric Bond Share Company v. Securities &Exchange Commission,303 U.S. 419 (1938),was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court upheld the constitutionality of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935.
