Comments from the House majority Leader
- We made good progress this week on crushing the virus
- We're just about there [on healthcare]
- If these talks didn't have a purpose and didn't make progress, I wouldn't be having them
- It's a question of CBO weighing in with a score. It takes time to get it to the floor
- If we can resolve some of these things in the next few days it will take awhile to write the bill. It will be close
- We have gotten close
- Haven't come to agreement on state and local and liability
Markets are liking these comments but I was listening to it and it's not clear to me whether she meant they're 'just about there' on the whole bill, or just the healthcare portion.
The key thing came when she was asked if there was an agreement state & local and liability protection agreements. She answered 'no'. Those are the two issues that have been the biggest snags for months.
