That’s what Congress has done. Thoroughly unprofessional.
There can be only one reason for this. And it has nothing to do with what they quoted for the reporters.
They are concerned, scared probably, that come November – they won’t be able to do what they just did to us.
Legacy – thy name is folly. May God Help Us.
“It’s a great moment. I’m proud to have been here,” said a teary-eyed Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), who as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee led the effort in the Senate. “No one will know until this is actually in place how it works [Edit: Here we go again!]. But we believe we’ve done something that has been needed for a long time. It took a crisis to bring us to the point where we could actually get this job done.”
Which crisis was this Senator? Mortgage? Foreclosures? Economy? Your property in Ireland?
Daniel McAndrew 
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