You can't have a law that says you have to have all votes in at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and then another law that allows you to have a hand recount that obviously is going to take more than just 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. They're in conflict, so a court I think has to resolve that conflict.
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Both parties have taken a position of 'do it my way or don't do it at all.' Some people think that's a great political issue. I think we're arguing about failure,
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advance the cause of government in a democracy that is almost evenly divided between the two parties.
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And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene.
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