Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, there has been much said that this bill is good but it could be better, and it could be better. The issue of loan forgiveness for spouses and children of those who died in the tragic events of September 11, the issue came up last week, about the middle of last week. As most of my colleagues know, the House was shut down last Wednesday night. The documents that are being referred to and the additional information that we considered putting in this bill were not available. Secondly, as has been mentioned, the loans for those who were tragically killed in these incidents has been forgiven. To go beyond that, what we wanted was some type of CBO estimate on what the additional exposure would be. That information is not available. I think the commitment is clear from our side that we are willing to work as we have all year in a bipartisan way on our committee to address these issues. And certainly this issue will be addressed as this process continues to move.”