Q Dana, to that end, you said, you know, put politics aside and get some things done. Do you anticipate anything over the next couple of weeks, since Congress is leaving for the elections to campaign, that anything can get done to immediately address the market turmoil?

MS. PERINO: I think that will -- I don't know. I think that there's a limited time. I don't know if we will have specific actions that we would ask them to take. Some of these things they've been -- they've been up on the -- they've been up in front of Congress for a while but Congress had put them on the back burner. We'd like to see some of these things acted upon. But I think Democrats themselves, and maybe some Republicans, have questioned whether or not they will be able to get anything done in the next two weeks. And it probably isn't that smart to try to finalize a legislation in the middle of a market correction as we're trying to figure out what other possible necessary steps may or may not need to be taken as we move forward.

So, what we'd like to do, first and foremost, is to have them accept our invitations for briefings and to come together -- get everybody -- get all the policymakers and lawmakers working in the same direction.

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