Political Quotes

“Madam President, I rise to speak very briefly, following the comments of my colleague from South Carolina on the pending amendment that I know has received broad bipartisan support. I also wish to comment on what happened in the market today. The stock market was down about 347 points. But what was more telling was the stock market, at one point today, approached a loss of 1,000 points which, if it had held, would have been the largest single-day loss in modern history. There were a number of causes. My colleague mentioned some clear concerns about the crisis in Greece. What it appears to be in terms of real-time reporting going on right now is that part of this precipitous drop took place because it appears there was a technology glitch on an order put in that had no backguard or safeguards to stop it. I am going to quickly go into an area that is actually the expertise of Senator Kaufman. I know Senator McCain's amendment will be up in a moment. I have heard, while sitting in that chair, my friend, the Senator from Delaware, come to this floor time and again to talk about the challenges that have been created in the marketplace with the increased use of high-speed trading, flash trading, colocation, sponsored access--a whole series of technical terms but terms that we may have seen the first inkling today with what happens when these tools of technology do not work the way they are supposed to.…”