Might consider in response to the protests. Speaker pelosi i was thinking of so many things in the bible that would have been appropriate in terms of the humanity of all people in our country, and i was thinking about time. Time is such an important commodity, the most important commodity, the most finite of all commodities. The time it takes to make the change necessary, and it is long overdue to make some of that change that people are calling out for. And i was thinking of an appointed time for everything. A time for every event under heaven. He talks about a time to heal, a time to embrace and a time to not embrace. A time for peace. Lets focus on the time to heal. The time to heal. We have had the role of the president of the United States, the role of commander in chief, president of the United States, a person who has a responsibility to heal. States, a person who has a responsibility to heal. President George Herbert walker bush spoke out in circumstances similar to now when he
Pulled that into this. Treasury, we want treasury to be able to have the cash that it needs and we are essentially taking that to our work. There may come a time when we talk about that. I think we are more focused, frankly, on the bill purchases the year end and review of supervisory and regulatory issues that were digging into and we think these are structural things, right just allow the liquidity that is already there to flow more freely perhaps by making fairly straightforward noncontroversial changes. We think there is some of that if they take role changes, it will take three months and things like that these things that were working on now, like going through year end with the overnight facilities and the bill purchases and the term repo, those are things we have to do right now and are doing. Chris hi. I wanted to ask the only change in the statement was a drop in the reference to uncertainties around the economy you seem very confident or it implies theres a lot of confidence
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