Let me quickly claim a point of personal privilege here and go into a little personal history that will hopefully offer some insight into the problems facing Europe.

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Mr. Chief Justice, point of personal privilege.

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As a matter of fact, my niece who -- excuse me, as we say in the Senate, a point a personal privilege -- who graduated from Harvard not too long ago, works for Secretary Geithner, she did exactly what we hope another 100, 000 will do: She studied Chinese and went and lived in China and is now devoted to making sure the relationship gets better and better and better.

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