Rep. Hultgren: Improving financial transparency with machine-readable documents

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Rep. Hultgren: Improving financial transparency with machine-readable documents

Imagine a company as high tech as Apple or Intel submitting legally required financial reports on PDFs and other non-machine-readable documents. That's what happens...

Daisy Thornton@dthorntonWFED

September 14, 2016 2:12 pm

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Representative Randy Hultgren (R-Ill.)

Imagine a company as high tech as Apple or Intel submitting legally required financial reports on PDFs and other non-machine-readable documents. That's what happens every day at agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission. Representative Randy Hultgren (R- Ill.) wants to change that. He joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss a new bill he's co-sponsoring, the Financial Transparency Act.

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