We put out a budget in February that lays out where we stand. It's hard to blame us for the fact that they are well behind on their work.

It's essentially the first organizing meeting of this council to prepare for a smooth transition.

We'll have to examine the details. But it is not clear that the provisions will actually help American farmers and others who want to sell food to Cuba.

We don't want to pre-judge how the next administration will proceed. We've been consulting with them all along.

Mr. Cheney was part of the 'Whip Inflation Now' team and he was part of a Bush administration that had a pretty anemic growth record, but that doesn't mean he's qualified to talk about the state of the economy today.

The timing of it absolutely reeks, but given the past conduct and record of that office is not surprising.