Nominations for the Board of Directors of the Delaware Stock Exchange

538,915 Class A shares and 734,450,954 Class B shares are represented at this meeting by proxies returned through Friday afternoon May 5th. That number represents quorum and we will therefore directly proceed with the meeting. The next item of business is to elect directors. Warren Buffett, Charles Munger, Howard Buffett, Steven Burke, Susan Decker, William Gates, David Gottesman, Charlotte Diamond, Thomas Murphy, Ronald Olson, Walter Scott, and Merle Whitmer have been elected as directors.