Steve Ellis
Steve Ellis
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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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It's a $2.4 trillion budget. There's work for everybody.
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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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We live in a semi-desert area, and every year there will be fires.
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There is little doubt by making it safer to develop in high risk areas by promising to fund people to rebuild through flood insurance, we have made people feel it is safe to move into these areas.
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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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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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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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A dramatic gap is opening up between carriers that get it and those that are still struggling to make it easy on consumers. The 21st Century Insurance Web site is consistently good, which clearly means the people at 21st are working hard to make their site as good as it can be.
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It almost looks like a spoils system between various agencies.
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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.