Donna Edwards Votes Yes

After voting against the Emergency Economic Recovery Act earlier in the week, my representative voted in favor of the Act today.

"While it saddens me to know that this isn�t the best bill that we could have developed, I believe it is the first step on the road to economic recovery," continued Rep. Edwards. �Today�s vote is by no means the end of the story. I and my colleagues are committed to taking aggressive action to solve this economic crisis not for Wall Street, but for hard-working, families in my district and across the country."

Comment: The ideal is the enemy of the good, and politics is the art of compromise. In this case, the damage of spending more time negotiating improvements in the bill might have cost more as the markets reacted to uncertainty than any benefit that might have been gained by further improvements, JAD