It is certainly my hope. We are working to try to get that agreed to. In fact, it has been my plan to do that, and I am going to be disappointed if we can't get it agreed to. I know there is good faith on Senator Daschle's part; there is on mine. We will just keep working until we get it done.
Discussing efforts to reach an agreement with Senator Daschle.
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