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October 1, 2008

The concerns are not so much about the continuing of the tax extenders, that is the benefits research and development tax, the taxes to help solar, wind, other energy sources. Clearly we're for that. What the Blue Dogs are concerned about is paying for these and not making the deficit worse. That's the controversy...

October 1, 2008

I'm for most of the provisions that are in there. As a matter of fact, the house has sent most of those provisions to the senate, paid for them, and would have asked them -- asked the senate to consider them individually. They chose not to do that in sending it as a package. Not only as a package, but they're putting it on a bill that i think is critically important for the house to pass and the congress to pass and the president to sign to stabilize this economy...

October 1, 2008

No doubt the tax package is very controversial. The senate, in my opinion, is adding that on because they think that's the only way to get it passed...We'll have to be talking to them. I'm not particularly pleased with that addition myself, very frankly...

October 1, 2008

Frankly since Monday's failure there's been a greater appreciation by the american public that this affects them and their families and I think there's going to be a greater understanding and more support, more broad-based support during the consideration bill to the next few days...

September 29, 2008

We delivered two-thirds of the democrats for a proposal by the republican president and republican secretary of state... secretary of the treasury. So we think we did our job and we worked very hard at making sure that we had that two-thirds vote...

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