MS. PERINO: No, I actually don't think it's all that unusual. I mean, there's -- when legislation finally comes to the President's desk, it often has a few things in there that he might not be able to support or that he wouldn't have recommended, but when there is bipartisan support for a bill, he will sign it.
One of the things is, we believe that we would have won a prolonged veto fight on this bill, because we think there's enough support, especially with House Republicans, to have rejected this $4 billion in bailout for lenders. However, given that we want and need for the Treasury Secretary to have these new authorities that he's asking for, we don't think that waiting until mid-September, at best, would be prudent.
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