Congress to SEC: You'll get nothing and like it
Twice in recent years, the House Appropriations Committee's approved budget for the SEC has been $222 million less than the SEC requested. For FY 2017, the SEC requested a budget of $1.781 billion. Anyone care to guess what the Committee approved?
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