If Congress were to legislate constraints on itself that was consistent with that deficit reduction path, that would be enormously helpful to sustaining the confidence in the United States and around the world that we are going to go back to living within our means.
Geithner emphasizes the importance of Congressional action for fiscal confidence.
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this ushers in a new era of openness and transparency for tax information between the United States and Panama.
It's very important to future economic growth. There is no alternative to doing that.
Again, our overall objective, and this has to be our shared objective, is to have the private markets, banks and investors, bear more of the risk in housing finance, not less of the risk.
I think it's inevitable that the Congress and the administration come together and reform, comprehensively, the U.S. tax code.
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