[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Pages 23393-23394]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            FINANCIAL CRISIS

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I think the majority leader set 
precisely the right tone. I, too, want to reassure the American people 
that we intend to pass this legislation this week. We will pass it on a 
broad bipartisan basis, both sides cooperating, to prevent this 
financial crisis from persisting.
   The message from the markets yesterday was clear. The time for 
finger-pointing indeed has come to an end. As the senior Senator from 
Tennessee likes to remind us, this is not the time to fix the blame, 
this is the time to fix the problem. Those also are the words of 
Senator McCain, with whom I spoke yesterday, who is in exactly the same 
place as all of us are on a bipartisan basis.
  So we will get the job done, we will get it done this week, and I 
think, hopefully, that will reassure the American people that Congress 
can rise to the occasion--act like grownups, if you will--and get the 
job done for all of our people.
  I yield the floor.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The majority leader.

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