This is something that Democrats and Republicans in the Senate worked together to write and pass.

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You have to work back from there -- and this is a little bit of an imprecise science -- but you have to work back from there to allow for what it would take to write and pass legislation that would take care of this issue.

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Even at this point, each member state has to write regulations or pass laws implementing the decision.

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Mr. Cuomo would write the music, pass it back, and the pair would go through it together, note by note, with Mr. Cuomo plinking out the score on a piano.

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Citibank would write an absurdly pro-credit card law, the South Dakota legislature would pass it, the governor would sign it and every credit card issuer in America would move to South Dakota to establish their corporate home base so that they might be free of the limitations placed on them by most other states where they might base their operations.

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As long as jittery traders pass along rumors that another big bank, or two, or three, will have additional huge write-downs in the coming weeks, the worries will continue.

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But I think his point about Congress was simply that the Supreme Court, since the New Deal, has deferred to the legislature, those who are elected by people around the country to write laws for them, and in this matter, on matters of national economic importance, to pass laws that regulate the economy and regulate areas of the economy like our health care market.

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