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Date Sort ascending	Title	Speaker	Type
Dec. 29, 2020	Commission Statement on the Passing of Jacob Stillman	Commissioner Hester M. Peirce Commissioner Elad L. Roisman Commissioner Allison Herren Lee Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw	Statement
Dec. 28, 2020	Statement on Designation of Commissioner Roisman as Acting Chairman	Commissioner Hester M. Peirce Commissioner Allison Herren Lee Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw	Statement
Dec. 23, 2020	Statement on Primary Direct Listings	Commissioner Allison Herren Lee Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw	Statement
Dec. 22, 2020	Investment Adviser Marketing - Past Proposals are Not Necessarily Indicative of Future Adoptions	Commissioner Allison Herren Lee Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw	Statement
Dec. 17, 2020	Statement on the Renaming of the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations to the Division of Examinations	Chairman Jay Clayton Commissioner Hester M. Peirce Commissioner Elad L. Roisman Commissioner Allison Herren Lee Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw	Statement
Dec. 16, 2020	Statement on Rules Governing the Disclosure of Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers	Commissioner Allison Herren Lee	Statement
Dec. 9, 2020	Roadwork Ahead: Upgrading Market Data Infrastructure	Commissioner Allison Herren Lee	Statement
Dec. 4, 2020	Statement on the Departure of Bill Hinman	Chairman Jay Clayton Commissioner Hester M. Peirce Commissioner Elad L. Roisman Commissioner Allison Herren Lee Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw	Statement
Nov. 24, 2020	Joint Statement on the Proposal to Facilitate Non-Cash Compensation for Certain Gig Workers	Commissioner Allison Herren Lee Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw	Statement
Nov. 19, 2020	Joint Statement on Amendments to Regulation S-K: Management’s Discussion and Analysis, Selected Financial Data, and Supplementary Financial Information	Commissioner Allison Herren Lee Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw	Statement
Nov. 17, 2020	The Promise of Structured Data: True Modernization of Disclosure Effectiveness	Commissioner Allison Herren Lee	Speech
Nov. 16, 2020	Statement on Departure of Chairman Jay Clayton	Commissioner Allison Herren Lee Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw	Statement
Nov. 5, 2020	Playing the Long Game: The Intersection of Climate Change Risk and Financial Regulation	Commissioner Allison Herren Lee	Speech
Nov. 2, 2020	Statement on Amendments to the Exempt Offering Framework	Commissioner Allison Herren Lee	Statement
Oct. 28, 2020	Statement on the Final Rule on Funds' Use of Derivatives	Commissioner Allison Herren Lee	Statement
Oct. 23, 2020	Joint Statement on No-Action Relief for Non-Compliance with the Customer Protection Rule	Commissioner Allison Herren Lee Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw	Statement
Oct. 16, 2020	Who Watches the Watchers?* Joint Statement on Auditor Independence Amendments	Commissioner Allison Herren Lee Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw	Statement
Oct. 8, 2020	Investing in the Public Option: Promoting Growth in Our Public Markets Remarks at The SEC Speaks in 2020	Commissioner Allison Herren Lee	Speech
Oct. 7, 2020	Regulating in the Dark: What We Don’t Know About Finders Can Hurt Us	Commissioner Allison Herren Lee	Statement
Sept. 23, 2020	Statement on the Amendments to Rule 14a-8	Commissioner Allison Herren Lee	Statement
Sept. 23, 2020	June Bug vs. Hurricane: Whistleblowers Fight Tremendous Odds and Deserve Better	Commissioner Allison Herren Lee	Statement
Sept. 22, 2020	Diversity Matters, Disclosure Works, and the SEC Can Do More: Remarks at the Council of Institutional Investors Fall 2020 Conference	Commissioner Allison Herren Lee	Speech
Sept. 18, 2020	Commission Statement on the Passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg	Chairman Jay Clayton Commissioner Hester M. Peirce Commissioner Elad L. Roisman Commissioner Allison Herren Lee Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw	Statement
Aug. 26, 2020	Regulation S-K and ESG Disclosures: An Unsustainable Silence	Commissioner Allison Herren Lee	Statement
Aug. 26, 2020	Joint Statement on the Failure to Modernize the Accredited Investor Definition	Commissioners Allison Herren Lee and Caroline Crenshaw	Statement