02/15/2011
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"Government shutdowns, which cost, the latest estimate, $24 billion or potential default threats, which result in spikes of interest rates, sure as heck do not provide that predictability."
"I would just say that I would ask you to look at this as well because it is one of the ways, without necessarily growing your balance sheet, that some of my colleagues have expressed a concern with."
"Let us face it, they were damned if they do, damned if they do not."
"I want to start where Senator Johanns left off and thank him and the cosponsors of 1217 because you are right."