Political Quotes

“Not October. We will either have to pass a resolution extending the date beyond that, which I presume would be relatively easy to do, or act on the reauthorization of the EAA in some form prior to that time. Frankly, that is fine with me. As I have said now several times, the effort of the Banking Committee to rewrite this legislation in light of changed circumstances in the last decade is a laudable effort, and there are a lot of changes that need to be made in the legislation. There is no argument about that. That, frankly, is what President Bush campaigned on and what he said he was for. That is perfectly appropriate. We are talking about details. It is evident that reasonable people-- or at least I hope the chairmen of these committees would be deemed to be reasonable; certainly my friends in this administration are extraordinarily competent on these matters. I believe with a little bit of time reasonable people will be able to resolve whatever differences exist.”