Executive
Compensation: Backdating to the Future/Oversight of current issues regarding
executive compensation including backdating of stock options; and tax treatment
of executive compensation, retirement and benefits
September 6 , 2006, at 10:00 a.m. in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Member Statements:
Charles Grassley, IA
Closing Statement
Max Baucus, MT
Witness Statements:
The Honorable Paul J. McNulty, Deputy Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC
The Honorable Mark Everson, Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, Washington, DC
Ms. Linda Thomsen, Director, Division of Enforcement, United States Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, DC
Ms. Nell Minow, Editor, The Corporate Library, Portland, ME
Professor Lucian A. Bebchuk, William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance, Director, Program on Corporate Governance, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Professor Charles M. Elson, Edgar S. Woolard, Jr., Chair, John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Professor Steven Balsam, Professor of Accounting, The Fox School of Business and Management, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Statement for the Record:
Christopher Cox, Chairman, U.S. Security and Exchange Commission
