" No bill's perfect," "I think we created a bill that was far better than it was in the beginning." "No, they just need to go back and read it; I've read it. It says marginal tax rates." "That's gonna have to be addressed in the conference." … "I don't know. We're going to have to take a look at that because that wasn't addressed in the process. That was brought about at a later date." A number of states ban public funding of abortion. "What we wanted to make sure of with this bill was for some judge to come along and say, well there's an implied preemption of the rights of the state to do that [ban funding], so we wanted to make it clear that states can continue to do that in the future." "Look, we have a system of government that has three branches. And this is just one of those situations where sometimes the three branches have different opinions and the courts are the final arbiter of those kind of issues." "There's no question about whether any of the money goes to fund abortion because it does not." CLASS ACT: "I still want to see the CLASS ACT OUT. There will be other opportunities down the road to introduce legislation. This is not a forever situation." 72 Hours "I suggested that that was a good way to handle it. I didn't demand it."