thank you, senator. i do want to respond to some of the comments made earlier. the chairman started out by talking about the cuba issue and said i will just bear freeze, it is down, down, and even dumber to essentially shield cuba from the influences that we have on other dictatorial regimes and authoritarian regimes. i could not agree more. i could not agree more. this why i oppose our policy on cuba for so long. mentioned another senator mentioned that iran is the only country less free cuba. but even iran, we don t shield the people from the influences or the government from the influences of americans traveling there. we encourage it. north korea to my of their government would allow more of it we would encourage more of it . we had a similar situation with cuba praising the education system. if we had bob from peoria our friend from the mind it would say no such thing because they would realize that it s a different world than is described by some with travel there
you come at a time when usaid is making headlines for doing nothing more than the job you were appointed to do. that we say to the record, when it comes to the issue of cuba or your work in any closed society, i do not believe usaid s actions, as clearly articulated in your mission statement to promote resilient democratic societies that are able to realize their potential, are in any way a cockamamie idea. i believe it is exactly what the people of cuba, iran, burma, belarus, north korea, and other authoritarian nations need to help them communicate with each other. to help them achieve the usaid s stated mission of a free, peaceful, and self-reliant society with an effective, legitimate governmen. so i commend you for helping people have a less control platform to talk to each other, helping them find a way to connect and share their views. global internet freedom programs , u.s. international broadcasting, and support for human rights activists are all fundamental co
would be a factor. so the greater the rebate, that would be where you would. how many times trades does ameritrade route? we route about 37% of our flow would go to an exchange on a daily basis, so i m assuming that i ll call it 40% of let s call it 400,000 trades a d day. about 150,000 trades a day? 150,000 trades a day times, you know you want a quarter, right? so that s going to be about let s see well, let s round it off, say half a million a week? yeah. so make in a month that would be about 2 million. a quarter about 8 million. that sounds good. round it off. we did about 90 million trades last year. then why wo it be only 8 million that s no exchanges. and you asked per quarter. that s about 8 million, two exchanges in a typical quarter. we looked at the form 606 quarterly order routing disclosures for the quarter that was covered in the vitalio paper. i m going to have to go vote. we re going to have to recess here for about 1
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