Chris Dodd: “First of all, acting now or acting later-- assuming we vote on this amendment offered by my friends from South Carolina…”

“First of all, acting now or acting later-- assuming we vote on this amendment offered by my friends from South Carolina and North Dakota, within minutes after that, I will be offering the amendment that would require that the $50 billion come out of the TARP money. I do not know what delay we are talking about. We are promoting the same piece of legislation. The money has already been appropriated to deal TARP, so it is there. So the question is not about delaying one in favor of the other. The question is, Which pot do you want to draw from? This is sort of a disconnect amendment. We were debating a stimulus package, I thought. Maybe we are not. I know there is some debate about that in the Chamber.”