Unfortunately, despite being invited to testify, the major exchanges, as the Chair has said--the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and CBOE--are not here today to describe their role in our economy or to help us assess how to reform them.
Waters notes the absence of major exchanges at the hearing.
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