Using the Army Science Board to study this issue makes sense and I wholly support their effort.

Dr. Andrews, why is this approach necessary when we already have DARPA, an entity that is the military's high-risk manager for research and development?

Do you believe that the Army will receive the level of financial support from the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) to aggressively support this process?

I am very much supportive of and know that there are transitional issues here, but one that I think in the long run will serve investors and the providers of investment services great advantage over the long run.

I would encourage, though, that when one looks at whether decimalization is working, and I use it as a generalization, we want to be careful that one doesn't confuse a different market environment for the diminishment of liquidity versus…

In the depth indicators, has there been an embracing of this concept? Is it working?

Is there anecdotal evidence of charges of stepping ahead, or front-running, by small increments to break up trading patterns?

Has the concept of block trading been affected by the decimalization, which gets at much of the depth issue.

I first of all want to thank you for having the hearings, and I am very hopeful that we can move this process forward very expeditiously.

It is a very important position. I congratulate Attorney General Ashcroft for this selection.

I am going to try and back him every way I can, and I am sure other members of the Committee will as well.

They would be here personally, except, as you can see, we are having a very difficult time on the floor on this tax bill.

I can assure you that the Democrats in the Senate want to move forward quickly.

Will you assure us that you will look into and fully and honestly investigate the complaints of African-Americans and Hispanics?

It is deplorable, when I go around the rest of the world and see people literally die, literally die to have a chance to vote.

Democracy only works if everybody can feel that it is a fair election.

I fully expect to be supporting your nomination on the floor.

I think that was the point Senator Stevens was trying to make.