I would like to get some record of particularly the number of those late 1990s companies that went public that were still in existence 3 or 4 years later.
We talk as elected officials about the growth of America's economy as so often dependent upon small businesses.
I think the only way that this venture exchange works and we do not have a repeat... is we would have to have... a regul...
The notion of how can we help some of those companies along the way move on that path is terribly important.
I do think we ought to--I think this is a very good hearing, but we ought to get from the panel and others, you know, wh...
I look forward to working with you closely as we have on so many other projects over the years.
This is an area where we have made some progress, and bipartisan action on the JOBS Act a few years back made important ...
I think it is very important because it is kind of like you could actually question whether a venture exchange might und...
I would just strongly urge you... that we would have a lot more knowledge if we could actually get the tick size project...
I saw Arthur Levitt's comments about venture exchanges saying, you know, a solution in search of a problem.
How we can get access to capital and grow small companies, startup companies, is critically important.