Christopher Cox, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has made enforcement of laws against stock-options backdating a priority of his organization. Below are links to his comments to the New York Financial Writers Association, during testimony before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and in a speech to the 2007 Corporate Counsel Institute.

 
Address to the New York Financial Writers Association

June 8, 2006

Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs

September 6, 2006

Address to the 2007 Corporate Counsel Institute

March 8, 2007