Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee and the House Committee on Agriculture requested clarification from the SEC as to whether the Ethereum token, Ether, is a security.
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Witnesses at a House Financial Services Oversight Subcommittee hearing titled "SEC Overreach: Examining the Need for Reform" reviewed the agency's approach to rulemaking.
At a House Financial Services Subcommittee Oversight hearing titled "Victims of Regulatory Overreach: How the SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rule Will Harm Americans," witnesses testified on the SEC's "aggressive" regulatory agenda, describing an "onslaught of rushed rulemaking."
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Expanding Access to Capital Act of 2023 in a party line vote. The bill is intended to build on the JOBS Act of 2012 by reducing the regulatory burdens on certain capital raising transactions.
U.S. Senators John Hickenlooper (D-CO) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced a bipartisan bill that would require the SEC to propose rules allowing regulated entities to deliver regulatory documents to investors using electronic delivery.