Staff members of the Housesciencecommittee have been meetingwiththeir counterparts on the Senate's committee on Commerce, science andTransportationseeking a middle ground.
In September, the Commerce Department declared the Northeast ground fishery a formal disaster, which raised hopes of economic relief that were later dashed in a trimmed-down relief bill for victims of Superstorm Sandy.
The rebound in U.S. markets gained momentum after the Commerce Department said that homebuilders broke ground on a million homes in March, the fastest pace in nearly five years.
Pollock isn't trained in architecture, so the questions he asks his friend tend to be questions you or I might ask if we met him, and because both of them are engaged in trying to create art in disciplines that are mostly about commerce, they find plenty of common ground.