But we will -- we hope that the kind of expressions of support for some of the measures that we have seen, the individual measures, will be realized in votes for them as we move forward here.

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This confidence will probably be shaken even more as the estimates of damages for Irene are realized.

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While inflation fears have yet to be realized as the global economic recovery only begins to take hold, they will surely come true on a more long-term basis.

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