"I think you hit it right, that we are talking about 7 months. We are already--it is not a full year, is it?"
"If it is not safe and secure, it will impact the commerce and that impacts jobs, so there are lots of ramifications for not continuing with the President's program."
"That pretty much stops the progress that you are referring to. Isn't that correct?"
"If you would ask me right now, I'm probably leaning more to what -- to supporting the Senate language, from what I have seen so far."
"And, of course, we got the CBO today, which gave us some promising numbers as to the cost of the bill itself and how much it's going to reduce the deficit in the next 10 years, $138 billion."
"I got the third most uninsured district in the whole state of Texas; probably number nine in the whole country."
"I think it's my responsibility to read the amendments. And of course, we got the CBO today which gave us some promising numbers as to the cost of the bill itself and how much it's going to reduce the ..."
"Well, that's one of the factors. And as you know what we're doing now, since it looks like we're looking at the senate bill language, I'm looking at some legal analysis as to what this language says."
"Well, just this afternoon, we just got the amendments to the Senate bill."
"Well, look, let me put it this way. Back in 2005, when I was a freshman, I -- I was the first Democrat to support CAFTA."
"I believe strongly in strengthening the markets, by giving agencies such as the CFTC and FDIC the proper means to identify and monitor entities that might pose a systemic risk to the economy."