Steve Ellis
Steve Ellis
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They're asking for a $40 billion blank check. It is a huge amount of money that would be essentially front-ended as appropriations, and then driven independent of Washington oversight.
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Banks can offer significant time savings and convenience to small business people. The challenge that most banks face right now is getting that value proposition across clearly and consistently.
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Anything that isn't nailed down, they pick up and take home to their districts.
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This bill boggles the mind. Brazen doesn't begin to describe it. The Louisiana delegation is using Katrina as an excuse to resurrect a laundry list of pork projects.
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We live in a semi-desert area, and every year there will be fires.
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We have real needs that we have to meet for rebuilding in the Gulf Coast, and with our tight budgets, this is almost a zero-sum game. And now we're taking about moving a railroad that's been rebuilt already? That doesn't make sense.
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Being able to extend E-mail to executives who aren't at their desks is a real productivity win for us.
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I'm concerned that there is going to be a run on the bank to get stuff done under the guise of Katrina.
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If you needed to talk (about) any family problems, any girlfriend problems or any football issues, his office was always open. His telephone line was always convenient.
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It's passing the buck, literally. There are no profiles in courage in the Senate on this.
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They've hijacked the bill to spend money on their toys. You have the V-22, which isn't even ready for fielding and it's getting money in the supplemental.
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It's a $2.4 trillion budget. There's work for everybody.
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There's a lot of talk these days about the long tail , but not that many companies are getting artists paid, ... Our people are long tail and they get checks from us.
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For an executive, a notebook isn't that portable. The BlackBerry is a truly portable device.