House Republicans Accuse SEC of ‘Hypocrisy’ and Violating Record-Keeping and Transparency Laws

Gary Gensler, Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, testifies before a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee oversight hearing on the SEC in Washington, on Sept. 14, 2021. Evelyn Hockstein-Pool/Getty Images

House Republicans accused Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler and his agency of hypocritically failing to comply with federal record-keeping and transparency laws that they impose on others.

A letter signed by Republican congressmen Jim Jordan of Ohio, Patrick Henry of North Carolina, James Comer of Kentucky, and Tom Emmer of Minnesota, was sent to the SEC chair on Nov. 2, accusing him of “skirting federal transparency and records laws” by failing to collect and provide records of official business conducted on social media and communications platforms such as Signal, Facebook’s WhatsApp, Microsoft’s Teams, and Zoom.