And she didn't seem shy about floating the bad bills.

From these two bad bills now might come a triumphant compromise.

There are probably more rumors in circulation than bad bills, but that's enough.

"If we know there's a bad bill, we have the responsibility to change it."

"A bad bill is worse than none at all."

In fact, they were eager, calling it a bad bill.

"My job around this time of year is to make sure bad bills don't get out, but things are moving very fast."

But why spend the rest of our lives firefighting a bad bill.

"If they pass the worst bills, we could lose all our customers," he said.

"Political anxiety in an election year is to blame for a lot of the bad bills Congress passes."