Bruce Josten
Bruce Josten
calendar drops playing says session short subtract travel
The calendar says they will be in session for 120 days, but when you subtract Mondays and Fridays, which are travel days, that drops to 74, so it's a very short playing field. At some point, you have to see what's politically achievable.
frame resolve time
They have got a lot to do in a compressed time frame and a lot to resolve between the chambers.
boils
I don't think this boils down to a 30-second spiel with anybody.
bunch certain determined facts given possibly predict rule
We've evaluated a bunch of these now, ... We've determined you can't possibly predict how they're going to rule on a certain set of facts in a given case.
business calls community deal finance late mass people rather senate staff
When this deal first surfaced late Thursday, the business community was just shocked. Instantly, if not rather simultaneously, people started making calls to the Senate leadership, to the staff of the Senate Finance Committee. It was the wholesalers, the manufacturers, the mass retailers.
budget sound talking
When you are talking about a budget for 2007 of $2,400bn, I don't want to sound crass, but $9bn is a rounding error.