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I think that we may be surprised by how things develop over the next couple months.

My sense is that the log jam in Congress is beginning

to break. That doesn't shock me. You know, all these folks, 435 House members, 100 senators,

they put their name on the line, they campaign in some cases for two years or more. They raise and spend a ton of money. They endure nasty attacks from their opponents. They endure nasty attacks from the news media. And finally, they get to Congress. They don't want to spend the rest of their life doing nothing. That wasn't why they ran. They ran because, whether

they're liberal or conservative, whether they're Democrat or Republican, they had real hopes

of achieving something. And I think as we've watched the gridlock and the nastiness and

government shutdowns and all the different

examples of dysfunction. I think gradually a lot of the members in both parties and in both the

House and the Senate are growing tired of not getting something done. To see sort of glimmerings, you see various members on a bipartisan basis,

talking about issues, talking about new legislation, developing some ability to get in a room

and listen to each other.

You see some of it happening in trying to solve the current dilemma in the

Senate, where there are now apparently real conversations underway between Democrats and Republicans

on what to do about getting TSA paid and the Coast Guard paid and breaking out of this

very long shutdown as it affected the Department

of Homeland Security. You're seeing other ideas begin to emerge where people are looking around

and saying, wait a second, everybody back home once is done, why can't we find some way to work

together? So I wouldn't be at all surprised this summer to see a whole range

of legislation come pouring through. Not all of it gigantic, not all of it historic, but building

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