It will never be made unless we get some leadership from the President, at which point I think a lot of people will fall in line. We have, on a bipartisan basis in the Senate, already been trying to work toward that end. Frankly, I don't think the political risks are as great as a lot of people think. I think we should tell the people the truth and do something, go ahead and do it. There is not a lot of risk to that.
Most people believe otherwise.
But we will have to have Presidential leadership under any circumstances. The President has come forth with a plan which does not really do those three things I mentioned before in terms of the alternatives, but he seeks to basically put the problem off to another day. It is a good strategy in a year before an election because it avoids the problem while pretending to solve it. But it certainly doesn't do anything to solve it. I think we can reach agreement on that with a pretty wide consensus on a bipartisan basis in this body because too many Democrats and Republicans have been working together and concluding that the approach that has recently been suggested by the President is something that just won't work.