On your first question on the CR, I mean, we obviously support the passage of the three-week CR, precisely because we need the time to negotiate a final CR for fiscal year 2011.

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"I would move for a two-week CR, " he said.

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But I think the point that he is making is a broader one, which is that as we saw in the CR debate for fiscal year 2011 that bipartisan compromise has to come -- can come, will come -- when each side is willing to take a sober, serious, constructive approach and also be willing to move off of his or her starting position.

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