We'll make every attempt to facilitate that request in the appropriation bill that's currently in conference at this time.

We'll facilitate their request,

He'll talk about legislation he's drafted that recognizes $10 billion in Medicaid savings in the budget reconciliation bill that will come up in October.

This bill contains various options that were suggested by the National Governors Association to give states more flexibility (in how they spend their Medicaid dollars).

[Bush aides said the appropriation request would be only a small fraction of the cost of recovery and reconstruction to deal with the hurricane, which cut a swath of damage across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.] The $10.5 billion is, indeed, a stopgap measure, ... We do not have a good sense . . . of how much the recovery from this disaster is likely, ultimately, to cost.

That must have been one of the strangest minutes of all time ... that there was no attempt by Mr. A to remove himself from the vicinity of a naked man with an erect penis.