jerry, please go but i know where it is. caller: thank you for taking my call. i have a question for the congressman and a follow-up. congressman, do you think it would have been right to keep american soldiers giving up their lives and limbs to fight in that country without being immunized from prosecution by the iraqi government? okay. what s your follow-up, sir? caller: my follow-up is that all these republicans, mccain and graham and everybody, talking about barack blew it. he didn t get the status of forces agreement. the reason he didn t get the agreement, because the iranians and maliki wanted to keep the soldiers there without being immuni immunized. and that s why the talks broke down, sir. jerry, i don t know in detail what your point excuse me, what you were saying. i ll just accept it, though. you re right. the iranians and maliki did not want our military there. so therefore, i don t think the president had any other option but to do what it s the
testimony. all witnesses who testify before this subcommittee are required to be sworn. at this time i would both of you to please stand and raise your right hand. do you swear that the testimony you re about to give before this subcommittee will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you got? we will be using a timing system today. please be aware that one minute before the red light comes on, you will see the light change from green to yellow, giving you an opportunity to conclude your remarks. all of your written testimony will be printed in the record in its entirety and we would ask that you try to limit your oral testimony to five minutes. professor battalio, we will have you go first. thank you again for your work. good morning chairman levin and ranking member mccain. thank you for inviting me to testify today. it s an honor to have the opportunity to present my views on conflicts of interest. in u.s. equity markets to the senate permanent
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the truth, so help you got? we will be using a timing system today. please be aware that one minute before the red light comes on, you will see the light change from green to yellow, giving you an opportunity to conclude your remarks. all of your written testimony will be printed in the record in its entirety and we would ask that you try to limit your oral testimony to five minutes. professor battalio, we will have you go first. thank you again for your work. good morning, chairman levin and ranking member mccain. thank you for inviting me to testify today. it s an honor to have the opportunity to present my views on conflicts of interest. in u.s. equity markets to the senate permanent subcommittee on investigations. my expertise is the relationship between order flow inducements offered by dealers and exchanges and the quality of trade execution. before discussing my current research with shane coreland and robert jennings i d like to provide a bit of context. orders used
many are not voting at all. the to live the american gene. thatck santorum argues they have been abandoned by both parties. part of the tv this weekend. a new history of the great depression. join others to discuss this. this week a subcommittee held a hearing to discuss high-frequency trading practices and u.s. stock market. the witnesses included the and aent and ceo of iex number of executives and u.s. exchanges. the entire hearing is just under three hours. good morning, everybody. u.s.americans image of the stock market is shaped by a single room, the trading floor of the u.s. stock exchange where traders await a ceremonial bell to pick up the day s activity and then trade shares worth millions of scraps of paper. in reality, most are traded not but florida manhattan computer servers in new jersey. happens in the milliseconds it takes for in order to travel through the cable. increasingly, comes from not thoroughly obsessing. there are unfathomable speeds, earning bi