Full Committee Hearing

Protecting Shareholders and Enhancing Public Confidence by Improving Corporate Governance

Date:   Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Time:   02:30 PM

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The witnesses will be: Ms. Meredith B. Cross, Director of the Division of Corporation Finance, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Professor John C. Coates IV, John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School; Ms. Ann Yerger, Executive Director, Council of Institutional Investors; Mr. John J. Castellani, President, Business Roundtable; Professor J.W. Verret, Assistant Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law; and Mr. Richard C. Ferlauto, Director of Corporate Governance and Pension Investment, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees.

Witnesses

Majority Statements

  1. Senator Jack Reed

Witness Panel 1

  1. Mr. John J. Castellani
    President
    The Business Roundtable
  2. Professor John C. Coates IV
    John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics
    Harvard Law School
  3. Ms. Meredith B. Cross
    Director of the Division of Corporate Finance
    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  4. Mr. Richard C. Ferlauto
    Director of Corporate Governance and Pension Investment
    American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
  5. Professor J.W. Verret
    Assistant Professor of Law
    George Mason University School of Law
  6. Ms. Ann Yerger
    Executive Director
    Council of Institutional Investors