Let me just complete the statement. The response of the author of the bill was, ``Jerry, I am not going to be able to help you with this. The chairman is going to do exactly what he wants to do with this bill, and he already has in his mind what he is going to do. He is going to roll right over me,'' is what he said to me.
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