The Securities and Exchange Commission’s budget increase for the rest of this year will be half, or 53 percent, of the amount requested.
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s budget will increase by $74 million, according to the Senate Committee on Appropriations’ summary of its budget bill for the 2011 fiscal year. This represents a 7 percent increase on the 2010 budget, bringing the agency’s appropriations to $1.185 billion in total.
