SEC Chair Mary Jo White is not sticking around at the SEC after the inauguration next month. But she does not plan to be idle in her remaining time at the Commission. In a pointed response to an earlier request by GOP senators to stop issuing new rules called for by Dodd-Frank, White has vowed to push ahead with a list of open regulatory matters. Chairman White’s letter strikes a defiant tone and asserts the necessary and statutory independence of the SEC from political meddling.