If Congress does not approve the funding then $2.5 million of federal and local money will have been spent with nothing to identify workable projects.

This is a critical juncture in terms of the study. If we don't get the money, work will stop in 2007.

Now, members of Congress will vote on a final conference report knowing that the FBI has in fact been using these provisions to get library information, and Congress won't be making a decision based on erroneous information put out there earlier.

Republicans will own Congress.

(Bush) can get all the money he wants out of Congress 'cause of this disaster, the people will be solidly behind him, the media will cover it like crazy and he's gonna look like Santa Claus.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money