Excerpt from Fees Collected Under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Securities of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress I absolutely recognize the seriousness and the magnitude of this issue, and I have to say that I endorse the observations made in your opening statements. Wherever possible, we have tried to reduce fees. We have taken specific action in two areas. First, we eliminated fees for certain fil ing disclosure forms; and second, just yesterday, we approved the nasd proposal to address concerns that there was a double count ing of trans actions in the over-the-counter market. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.