Perhaps we don't move as far or as fast today as I would like. But I commend Arthur Levitt, Dick Grasso, and Frank Zarb for this new agreement and for this significant step forward. It will make stock prices as easy to understand as grocery prices. It will mean that American investors will not go overseas to make their trades. We could not have arrived at this day and this announcement without the leadership of Chairman Tom Bliley, and the important contributions of Ed Markey, Ed Towns, and Vito Fossella.
Today is a great day for American investors and a great day for America's capital markets.