Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Senate rejects attempt to weaken Sarbanes-Oxley

(Reuters) - The amendment was offered by South Carolina Republican Jim DeMint, who tried to attach it to a bill on the Senate floor that was focused chiefly on boosting investment in research, and improving science, engineering and math education.

In response to the amendment, defenders of Sarbanes-Oxley proposed and won passage, by a vote of 97-0, of a symbolic Senate statement expressing support for efforts already under way by federal regulators to fine-tune Section 404.


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