MS. PERINO: I think that's the way I would describe it. There are some alternatives and variations to what we had proposed that have come forward. What the President said he would do is at the end of the day, when this legislation is crafted, that he would look to his Secretary of the Treasury and Ben Bernanke, the Fed Chairman, and he would ask them one question: Does this legislation do what needs to be done in order to help save the economy? And if the answer is yes, then we'll all have done our duty on behalf of the American people.
So that's the -- that is the spirit with which we have gone forward with these negotiations. And we're trying to reach a conclusion that would also solve the problem.
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