[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 5692]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        PRESIDENTIAL DISCUSSIONS

  Mr. REID. I would say two things, Mr. President. First of all, the 
distinguished Republican leader and I had a meeting with the President 
yesterday. I was happy to hear--I had heard he had issued a veto threat 
against this bill, and he said that is not the case, and that is good. 
I don't expect the President to like everything in our bill, but I 
think this is the beginning of the process. This bill will go to the 
House, and with the House and the White House, we can come up with a 
piece of legislation fairly quickly. So I was very satisfied with the 
housing discussion with the President yesterday.

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