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s just under three hours. today u.s. capital markets which traditionally have been the envy of the world are fractured, vulnerable to system failures and trading abuses, and are operating with oversight blindspots. the very markets that we rely on to jump start our economy and invest in america s future are susceptible to market dysfunctions that jeopardize investor confidence. i want to begin by thanking chairman jack reed, his ranking member senator bunning, and our colleagues on their subcommittee, the securities, insurance, and investment subcommittee, who have already held hearings on these issues. we thank them for welcoming our subcommittee to join with them to shine a light on problems that threaten u.s. market stability and integrity. seven years ago the new york stock a chick predicted york stock exchange accounted for 80% of trade in its listed stocks. today, less than 25% of the nyse-listed stocks are traded there. w
legislation. to what extent our staff levels ability to have clearl a high-tech trading? thank you. the richest of reaching our 2005 levels. we have been enormously fortunate to be able to attract a minutes immensely talented staff. there are people from hedge funds and trading desks to help as had the ability to do the job we have always been charged with. it is essential that we bring that kind of cells thaskill sete agency. rohm & hoss in order to make use of adaptive we would receive, even understanding the exchanges, we need people with management, quantitative analysis and capability to see something on the order. it is to respect of our oversight marketplace. i do think our agency will be asked to take on the market. it is nearly 20 times the size and if our economy. we currently oversee them about $40 trillion. we have more in this coming year. this is to deal with data. we will need to be able to put a pipeline into that. there are alert on 300 different w
that the fact that the government funds something does not transform it into a state actor. if it did, then they will all become state actors. that would be an enormously damaging precedent for this court to follow. what blanc says is that the performance of a traditional prerogative, and here, all the sto is doing is handing out money and it is doing so on a neutral basis and anyone can form an and anyone can a guy form andthe case is submitted. next, a discussion on the impact of campaign financing. then, a ceremonial groundbreaking for a new veterans memorial in washington d.c.. after that, interior secretary can salazar discusses plans for the national. a discussion on the role of money in political campaigns. we will hear from charlie cook. and she looked on old, the director of this is an hour and 10 minutes. this is just over an hour. let me describe briefly the formats of the event, then i will make a couple introductory remarks and introduce our first guest.
made. can i turn to the issue the vexing issue of the internet sessions already about the carriage. there s only one question i want to explore, which is what you and the government did, which you realize that you had this astonishing contract which given the decisions you re going to take come with aircraft carriers for 10 years with no aircraft to put it in. how carefully was renegotiation of that contract would be considered? well, can i make a broader point and then joe very specifically with your question. this was clearly, of all the problems we face, probably the greatest. it was an incredibly difficult contract for a government that committed whoever had won the general election to an extraordinary amount of expenditure on tudor aircraft carriers which have increased significantly from 3.9 billion pounds to 5.2 billion pounds. this was confirmed by the previous chief secretary to the previous government in january of 2010, which is in these contracts have been fur