Excerpt from Wakefield, Davis, Easton, Brown, and Snyder Nominations: Hearing Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, First Session The chairman. Are you aware Of any personal holdings, invest ments or interests which would constitute a conflict of interest or create the appearance Of such a conflict should you be confirmed and assume the offices to which you have been nominated by the President? Mr. Wakefield. Mr. Chairman, my investments, personal hold ings and other interests have been reviewed both by myself and by the appropriate ethics counselors within the Federal Government. I have taken appropriate action to avoid any conflicts of interest and there are none either in terms of actual conflicts, or appearances thereof, to my knowledge. 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.