What they did identify was a cut in funding for a potentially positive measure contained in earlier legislation to provide support for start-up companies.

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We've got, if you look at -- if you just look at what the bill did, as a result of that legislation, for the first time in four economic quarters we had positive growth.

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But when risk of legislation is lower, you tend to get lower overall risk aversion and more uniformly positive years.

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