The best thing that Congress could do right is to go back to the drawing board and offer targeted assistance to the relatively few businesses that can't get terror coverage, like some skyscrapers,

What the credit bureaus are most interested in is gaining market share in the increasingly lucrative market for credit scores.

It is possible some could read this and say, 'they're encouraging me to pay late,' ... Paying late is never a good deal.

[The new law will likely mean higher legal fees, because of added responsibilities and costs.] I know prices are going to go up, ... Whether some lawyers take advantage and charge an arm and a leg, we'll be looking out for that.

They [Congress] didn't fix the right problem. It was done for political purposes. It is a dreadful bill [Medicare prescription-drug bill]. It made problems worse, not better.

The predicate for this entire budget ... is the tobacco settlement. There isn't a bigger question mark in this Congress right now than whether that will ever occur.