add greater clarity and specificity to rules we already know but weren't as clear.

For current media outlets, this is nothing more than a restating of the rules,

There's consensus. There's clarity. There's cash. There is much better coordination. We should be able to deal with the bird flu epidemic much quicker and ... if the pandemic comes, it will be smaller as a result of what's gone on at this meeting.

There is a difference between transparency and clarity. You can put everything out there and have a full airing of different opinions. But sometimes there is too much emphasis on the Fed's deliberations rather than its conclusions and that confuses things.

The problem is the agency we are appropriating money to has demonstrated with great clarity that it is spectacularly dysfunctional.

The problem is the agency we are appropriating money to has demonstrated with great clarity that it is spectacularly dysfunctional,