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 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.

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

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.

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

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

We have a capacity crisis in our nation's aviation infrastructure, and unless we build new runways and build them faster than we are now, aviation gridlock will become a permanent feature of air travel.

I look forward to working with you both at the Department of Transportation, and I take pleasure in supporting both your nominations.

I want to figure out a way to help you and the Republicans and folks on both sides of the aisle to try to find some common ground on issues that we have spent

I think it is an extraordinarily important agency, both from the standpoint of your tools under existing law, and the bully pulpit function that the Federal Trade Commission can perform.

Well, again, I would hope that when you find anticompetitive practices, you do more than say, 'Gosh, that is just too bad.'

I think it is about as anti-free enterprise as anything you can find.

Most of the Western states refiners prevented their jobbers from competing with them to supply branded gasoline to independent dealers in metropolitan areas, a practice called redlining.