host: from arizona. law remember from democrats do. you think the senate must pass this bill this year? caller: certainly important. it's ridiculous. they need control of things and drug companies are just out of line and there needs to be some regulation. ho host thanks. mr. adriel bettelheim can you take us deeper into the drug purpose amendment coming up this week. >> yeah this is a topic that comes up all the time in healthcare debates. there's a concern about the rising drug costs and the role they play in medical inflation. some people that are policy junkies might remember in 2003 when the bush administration and congress expanded medicare and drug prescription benefit. there was a lot of talk about allowing consumers bringing drugs from a broad and seniors taking buss to canada and somehow to limit importation that's banned now for safety grounds so this has emerged in the healthcare debate now. what's interesting after president barack obama campaigned on bringing drug cost down. he cut a deal that would insulate them from som

. >> well, i was a to the senator from arizona that he is exactly right. or another way to describe it, the senator from kansas said it was like writing a big check on an overdrawn bank account to buy a big new car. that may be another way, if i could respond to the senator from arizona and i would ask consent that republican senators in our time he allowed to engage in a colloquy. >> mr. president, may ask the senator question. >> i'd like to finish responding to senator mccain if i may. >> than a question on the same subject. >> i hope the department is taking care of the time. i'm enjoying the questions. i think the senator from montana for his question. one of the things that impact i a great complement has been paid is our senator from arizona that in your united states senator could have something he said actually begin to break through the fog and data milbank a very perceptive "washington post" columnist wrote a column today about it's been all about grandma and wondered why we never mentioned grandpa. and maybe mr. milbank hasn't seen the movie th

texas and arizona, but very effective. tuscon sector and think has been fully implemented and i think part of the reason may be a look of detention space so to questions. what are your plans with expanding operations streamline? if so where you think it might be, and then secondly i will get into the question of detention space. >> i think first of all i support operation streamline. i think it is effective. i think with respect to the tucson sector which is by magnitude the larger sector that we have, they provide logistical difficulties. i think we have the dead space available. i think we are de silva-- solving your detention issues. we had an issue with the ninth circuit, piece of these streamline that has just come down a couple of days ago, about how please are done in streamline matters and given the volume of cases, and i know you know that courthouse well, we have had to be working out there in terms of how are going to operationally address the court of appeals concerns so we continue to streamline in the tucson

ten years, myself, the senator from arizona and others. he knows because he was chairman of the commerce committee, we held hearings on this in the committee. now, the fact is, we have gotten votes on it before. in each case, the pharmaceutical industry, that has a lot of muscle around here, has prevailed on those votes with an amendment that is a poison pill amendment saying somebody has to is certify with respect to no additional safety risk and so on. these safety issues are completely bogus, absolutely bogus. they have done in europe for 20 years what we're proposing to do in this country, parallel trading between countries, with no issues at all. and what we're trying to do, as the senator from arizona has indicated, is save the american people $100 billion in the next ten years because we are charged the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs and there is no justification for it. i want to just show the senator from arizona one chart and this is just representative. nexium, if you happen to take some nexium, you need nexi

the senator from arizona. mr. mccain: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senator from rhode island be recognized for ten minutes and followed by the senator from michigan, the distinguished chairman of the armed services committee, who will be speaking on the bill, and that i be recognized to follow them. mr. levin: i assume that that's for ten minutes each. the presiding officer: is that for ten minutes each? mr. mccain: i do, but i -- i just saw -- i have been around here 20-some years. the first time i have ever seen a member denied an extra minute or two to finish his remarks, and i must say that i don't know what's happening here in this body, but i think it's wrong. and so i -- it's fine with me that it be ten minutes, but i'll tell you, i have never seen a member denied an extra minute or so, as the chair just did. mr. levin: if the senator would yield for that? i don't object to the unanimous consent request on that condition. i think that the same thing did occur earlier this afternoon for reasons which

thank you to the arizona the -- senator from arizona to clarify. i tried to talk about the facts and i'm happy to have the opportunity to restate the facts as they exist as they have been presented to us by the cbo and cms x-ray both of whom who have concluded the same thing when it comes to the benefits and the impact of this will have on premiums in this country which is the most devastating blow to the arguments the other side has made in support when cms actuaries said this will actually increase the cost of health care in this country by $2,304,000,000,000 over the next 10 years for i am happy to yield. >> good afternoon. i thank you for coming out this afternoon. i want to take a moment to bring you up to speed have we see the debate right now on health care in the country. and to share with you a few thoughts of some actions that we're hoping to take at the grass-roots level to more involve the american people and their voice that i think has ben lost and translation over the last few months especially. we will go through that and then also

. -- represented arizona in the house and senate from 1912 to 1969. this is 10 minutes. virginia. mr. byrd: i thank the chair. thank you, pat. i thank senator reid, my leader. i thank senator mcconnell. and i thank my colleague and dear friend senator jay rockefeller and all senators, every one, for their good words and for this outstanding resolution. today, madam president, is. mormore than a commemoration ofe length of service of one u.s. senator. today also celebrates the great people of the great and mighty state of west virginia. who have honored me by repeatedly placing their faith in me. because of those wonderful people in west virginia, this foster son of an impoverished coal miner from the great hills of southern west virginia has had the opportunity to walk with kings, to meet with prime ministers, and to debate with presidents. i've had the privilege not only to witness, but also to participate in the great panarama of history. from the apex of the cold war to the collapse -- the collapse of the soviet union, from my opposition to the 1964 civil rights act to my part

in phoenix, arizona. greatest zoo. white tiger. brand new aquarium, the only aquarium in that part of the world. look at this. this is a savannah? >> water monitor. >> look at his tongue. what he's doing, he's feeling your attention right now. don't do that. act like you're not nervous. that's better. do this, larry. it feels good. let him touch your hand. do that. has a lizard ever licked you? just try. >> larry: it's not poison? >> no -- well -- >> larry: well, don't say well. you try it. >> just go like, that larry. he's feeling -- don't let him get real close. do you see that? >> larry: yeah. do i see it. >> did you feel it? >> larry: yeah. >> what he's doing is he's picking up particles. that's how he hunts. the komodo dragon when he bites you the bite's not going to kill you. he will track you for days. this is the biggest one i've ever seen. >> larry: let's get in the alligator. not a big alligator. a little alligator. two little alligators. different from the croc. wait a minute, i said little. hold it. >> holy mackerel, la

arizona hear a story from our republican line. your favorite book of 2009? >> caller: hi, i want to talk about the most informative book i've read and that is the corruption of the muslim fine. i can't tell you who actually wrote it, but because they can't pronounce his name. but he is a devout muslim man that explains the quran. he interprets the quran and i think we all need to read that to understand how they came to the mindset they have now that they have to kill that muslims have to control the world. i want to apologize, may i? >> host: chewer. >> caller: peters plan was the host when i called in. first i want to tell you i and 80 years old in the last year i developed a problem. i'm going blind. and i started reading when the iraq war broke out everything i could about the arabs, every book i could get about the middle east and since i was retired i could read all day. but now in the last year i haven't been able to read your head my memory is going bad. >> host: can you do books on tape or podcast and things like that? >> caller: they don't come out

and the arizona governor's office estimates this bill would require the state of arizona to increase its cost by almost $4 billion between now and 2020. the state of arizona doesn't have that kind of money. just the so-called wood work effect alone, meaning the number of currently eligible individuals that might enroll, would itself entail significant costs. there are about 200,000 arizonans currently eligible but not all are enrolled in medicaid. if only half of those individuals would enroll, it would cost the state $2 billion from 2014 to 2019. as i said, our state simply doesn't have the money to do that. our arizona governor wrote to chairman baucus stating her opposition to the medicaid, pangs, and at this point, mr. president, i would ask unanimous consent that her letter dated october 6th, to chairman baucus be included in the record at the conclusion of my remarks. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kyl: let me read a few excerpts from her letter. first, she said that arizona cannot afford our current medicaid program despite the fact that we have one of the lowes

barrasso: thank you very much, because i agree with the senator from arizona. i took -- i looked at another one of his favorite newspapers, "the new york times" today, because we have on this floor -- we have on this floor said that the democrat proposal is cutting medicare, cutting the medicare that the seniors of this country depend upon for their health care, and we pointed out that they have taken $120 billion away from medicare advantage. $11 million seniors use medicare advantage. one out of four seniors on medicare. the reason they sign up for medicare advantage is because there's an advantage to doing it for the seniors. preventative care, coordinated care, things that we know are important. yesterday on this floor, the democrats voted to cut cut $42 billion away from home health care. this is a life line for homebound patients. it helps keep them out of the hospital, out of the nursing homes, and yet in spite of all of the letters that we've read from patients as well as the home health care communities and all of our states, they have cut that. but ye

and the arizona education association. before i turn over to dennis i want to read three quick quotes from dennis that i think again somewhat define his views and also set the stage for hopefully some of what he's going to talk about. so, dennis, the website says the mission and vision of nea absolutely defines who i am and what i care about and what i believe in. what a powerful statement for any organization to say that the reason that we exist is to fulfill the promise of public education and not just for some but for every -- to prepare every student to succeed. i'm proud of that and i want to continue that journey. dennis also said on september 30 if when he testified before the house education and labor committee that nea's visiones for a great public school for every student. he went on to say though unfortunately, the intense attention of nea members to many students do not enjoy the benefits of a great public school because the schools are often chronically underfunded, understaffed and unsupported and this is sim

blanche lincoln and jon kyl, arc, and arizona, have -- arkansas and arizona have placed some proposals out there. the correct way to tax a gain and the value of assets bequeathed to an heir with a tax of 15%. there ought to be some action that derives some revenue for t otherwise people out our way are having to sell off ranches prematurely in order to have the money to pay for the death tax when the founder of the family passes away. and a recent problem that we've had with that is that the land values are going up. i suppose they've stagnated at the moment, but it's hard to tell. these ranchers were putting money in, trying to do estate planning so that they could pay this with not having to sell off part of the farm, and we're doing a -- and were doing a pretty good job of that. they made some adjustments where we made adjustments and started giving them a a a decliefnlt there's going to a lot more said on that yet. we've got this massive spending bill. this huge increase in spending. and i wanted to share with you some of the words of douglas holtzs eakin, who is the former directo

grassley: before the senator from arizona leaves -- before the -- before the senator from arizona leaves, the point you made and the efforts by the members of the other party to strike medicare advantage, i have a letter here that was sent to members of the medicare conference september 30, 2003, with more democratic signers that are still in the senate than republican signers that are in the senate that set out all of the reasons why medicare advantage was so, so very important and why it needed to be -- why it needed to have more money put it in the year 2003. for instance, i would read from this letter." for nearly five million medicare beneficiaries across america, medicare choice "-- and that's what it was called before it was called medicare advantage --" is an essential program that provides compensation affordable health coverage. these seniors and disabled americans have voluntarily chosen to receive their health benefits through medicare h.m.o.'s and other private sector plans because they have excellent value. to preserve this important option for seniors across the country, b

andre agassi in arizona. pete didn't have enough here in charlotte, but the fact he was playing great tennis against jim courier, great to be a part of it. >> the sun came out on a sunday in charlotte and jim courier provided some high caliber tennis. he's our champion at the palisades. make sure you join us two weeks from now in surprise arizona. until then, for our entire crew, a long. jim courier wins charlotte. we'll see you later. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

arizona curious tourists on the republican line. you're favorite book of 2009. >> caller: hello. i want to talk about i think the most informative book i have read and that is the corruption of the law muslim mind. i can't tell you who actually wrote this because i can't pronounce his name but he's a very devout muslim man that explains the kuran he interprets it and i think we all need to read that to understand how they came to the mindset they have now that they have to kill, the muslims have to control the world. but all i want to explain -- i want to apologize, may i? >> host: sure. >> caller: -- it was peter i think was the host and mike holden and first of all i want to tell you i am 80-years-old and for the last year i've developed a problem. i'm going blind. and i have read, started reading to the ka reading when the iraq war mack broke out everything i could about the arabs, every book i could get about the middle east, and since i retired i could read all day, but now in the last year i haven't been able to read. my memory is going bad. >> host: can you do books on tap

paul school and to yale and to harvard law school and then moved out to arizona. and he came from this long social background in new york. his grandfather had taught at greek at yale during the civil war. then he got involved in all -- and kitchel was a very unusual man. and he did not remain friends. and you will read how at his suggestion i met kitchel once. he was not -- it was clear they were not very friendly. . .. >> in what way does that make a difference to him? >> i think it was tremendous. they were a very devoted couple. she was a terribly smart woman. they met when he was in washington as a clerk to justice jackson. she worked for the cia on the austrian desk. and they then -- it was genuinely -- i'll tell you. this is a very important thing. until her illness, every night they read between 40 and 50 pages aloud to each other of 18th or 19th century novels. when i first met him, and i didn't realize all this, i asked him to -- he was reading scott's quentin irwin. a real obscure book in my opinion. and i asked him how come. he said they went through no

the previous motion to commit by senator mccain of arizona said send this bill back and make sure you take out any reference to savings in the medicare advantage program. that was defeated. the vote was 42-58. there were two democrats who joined the republicans. they needed 60 votes. it didn't make it. i take it the senator from utah may offer another motion to commit relative to the medicare advantage. i expect it to have the same fate, but he has his chance to argue his point of view, and he may be persuasive to more members on this side of the aisle. unfortunately, although we are good, close friends and i really bask in his wisdom on a daily basis, he is not going to change my mind on this issue because the medicare advantage program is a program that needs to be changed. let me tell but this program. we started years ago with the health insurance industry telling us government cannot do a good job when it comes to insurance. let us show you how private health insurance companies can sell a medicare policy more cheaply than the government, and we invited them to do it. and over th

president, the senator from arizona is correct. there is a letter from the food and drug administration? the fact is we have seen this over the years that they say well, we don't have the resources, or it will impose more risk. the fact is this amendment provides the resources for them, because those are going to register to be able to ship fda approved drugs into this country at a better price are going to have to pay a fee. and the people that are selling will pay a fee. and those pharmacies and others in our country who will be receiving will also pay a fee. this actually funds -- require no additional funding from the taxpayer. >> no additional funny from a taxpayer at all. . . issue at all, and it will provide the additional resources and pay for those resources without asking the taxpayers to come up with the money. mr. mccain: do these countries that are included in the senator's amendment, could we have absolute assurance, could we look at the american people and say those countries and the agreements we would have with the

arizona, 329,157. arkansas, 70,137. california, 1,606,193. colorado, 1898,521. connecticut, 94,181. delaware, 6,661. the district of columbia even has 7,976. how about florida? 946,836. almost a million people on medicare advantage. good reason -- it works. georgia, 176,090. hawaii, 79,386. idaho, 60,676. illinois, 176,395. indiana, 148,174. iowa, 63,902. people enrolled in medicare advantage. let's proceed further. kansas, 43,867 people enrolled in medicare advantage. kentucky, 110,814. louisiana, 151,954. maine, 26,984. maryland, 56,812. massachusetts, 199,727. michigan, 406,124. minnesota, 284,101. mississippi, 44,772. missouri, 195,036. montana, 27,592. nebraska, 30,571. nevada, 104,043. new hampshire, 13,200. new jersey, 156,607. new mexico, 73,567. look at new york, 853,387. north carolina, 251,738. people enrolled in medicare advantage, who love the program. north dakota, 7,633. ohio, 499,819. goo geewhiz, that's a lot of people who are satisfied with medicare advantage. oklahoma, 84,980. oregon, one of the most liberal states in the union, 249,993. pennsylvania, 864,040. pue

he was suspended one week ago in that close loss to arizona by nc state. he did not score in double figures for the first time this season in the game earlier against winthrop. nc state, just 4 of 12 to start this game. here's gonzalez. shot clock's under 10. oh, gonzalez with two seconds on the shot clock. nice drive. >> mike g.: that's the thing at point guard you have to have a guy who can break it down at the shot clock, get you an @ opportunity. mike dement thought he had traveled on early 0b on in that possession. javy gonzalez is really playing at a high level, reallypgu@jjh coming into his own as a point guard this year. >> mike h.: number four in the acc on assists. jn n eól@÷xe/h@l&nfrúq]nm2 and c.j. williams sophomore from fayetteville down with the rebound. here comes nc state again. there's the feed to smith from gonzalez. >> mike g.: gonzalez made that play by the dribble drive penetration. stywall had to step up. tracy smith had an easy opportunity. >> mike h.: largest lead of the game for nc state. at 16-6. tracy smith and scott wood eac

arizona 48%. michigan, 37%, and california, 35%. for those states, it is an average of 40% of mortgages under water for it and the rest of the country, is 14% on average. we know from hope now because they collect data that approximately 3.5 million people are 60 days past due. we know that since december 2007, the department of labor, 7.3 million or more jobs lost. we had significant shifts on foreclosures, more economic now, they're not foreclosing our rate of three times the rate of subprime loans. option forms a significant resets -- options arms have significant resets as noted. you'll see that in the data for that shift is taking place there are 650,000 trial hamp longs and process. there's been a big push since the beginning of the year. the capacity of servicers is a huge issue. to be efficient and execute is a huge issue, one that everyone is working on. the old model of loan servicing has been change. there are 20 special servicers are the industry. they're dealing with just distressed servicing. there are door knockers go

just the senator from arizona, just the senator from tennessee? how about the senator from oklahoma or the senator from south carolina? well, i'm sorry. i feel sorry the republicans are all split up. they have not done their own homework, to pull their own senators together for something positive. so what they have done is they have pulled together to say no, to try to kill the reform bill that we have worked so hard on all year. now, we extended a hand. now, if we had really wanted to ace out the republicans, we would have followed their lead and what they did in 2001 when they ran through that tax cut for the wealthy. they did it on reconciliation so we couldn't filibuster it, so we couldn't have any debate on it. that's what they did. that's what they did. we didn't do it that way. president obama said we want to hold the olive branch out, we want to work with republicans, so that's what we tried to do. under the leadership of senator dodd on our committee, we had numerous meetings with republicans. we had a markup session that lasted 13 days,

while arizona has only a month when a rate of 9.1%. the difficulty of the modification to cons%/d%g@ @ @ r in determining the loan modification success rates. my recommendation is for the treasury to account for loans that are serviced in a bubble states and the midwest economic states like ohio and michigan. in short, modified loans and nebraska will be far easier than in arizona and nevada. one thing that we should consider is to allow financial institutions -- rather than take immediate hits to their capital when we have a modification or default, allow them to advertise their losses over a five-year period. that would enable some of the distressed assets to sell like heart was originally meant to do. that includes conversions to leases. ch fannie mae is considering and brought loan modifications that a particular sense. particularly in the vacancy rates in many states in the housing market conversions make some sense when the comparatively low rental rates compared to mortgage payments. i welcome any opportunities and appreciate th

just the senator from arizona? just the senator from tennessee? how about the senator from oklahoma or from south carolina? so, i am sorry -- i feel sorry that the republicans are all split up. host: ted, from endeavor new york, on the republican line. caller: i like to know about senator chuck schumer from new york. how he has not made a deal like mary landrieu or ben nelson, and gotten $300,000 or the medicaid pay off? that would be an interesting question for chuck schumer to answer. host: "usa today" writes a little about that. the story this morning that dubbing them the louisiana purchase and the cornhuskers set backickback -- louisiana, next up, ronald on the independent line. caller: my opinion, getting back to miss mary lender of think that she did great for the state of louisiana and that is why she was elected -- to get things done. -- that is married landrieu. as far as both sides, the republican and democratic parties are fighting among us, doing worse than any terrorist could ever do. they are dividing the nation. eager to the coffee

i had a town hall meeting the other day in arizona, as i do quite frequently. the rate lot of doctors said came. doctors, nurses, and cared givers. i asked them, what do you do about medical malpractice reform? every one of them said we practice defensive medicine. we prescribe additional testing procedures. we have to do it because we find ourselves in court by the trial lawyers. to not underestimate the stunning success of the american trial lawyers association who have made sure there is no provision in this bill that has to do with medical malpractice reform. by the way, if there is an example it is called the state of texas. the state of texas enacted meaningful and yet not draconian medical malpractice reform. premiums have gone down. doctors are flooding back into the state of texas. it has worked. they are making demonstration projects. the demonstration project is the state of texas. so instead of a reform which could save we are going to get hospitals, nursing homes, hospices. the list goes on and on up to half a trillion dollars. my motion will send

the presiding officer: the senator from arizona is recognized. mr. kyl: i listened carefully to what my colleague said. as a member of the finance committee, i can tell him he's not in error. what he said is is true about premiums going up under this legislation. the promise was that premiums would not go up. they teurpb to go up. -- they continue to go up. in the case of the individual market the legislation itself causes them to go up between 10% and 13%. my colleague is not in error. mr. president, i think if the reid bill has a motto it is "in government we trust." with the turn of every page it is no exaggeration to say the bill creates a washington takeover of health care. $2.5 trillion in new government spending, $494 billion in new taxes $465 billion in medicare cuts. higher health insurance premiums for individuals, families and businesses. it's packed with new federal requirements and mandates that amount to a stunning assault on liberty. even in the absence of government-run insurance plan this, bill would give the government virtually tot

president, the senator from arizona is correct. there is a letter from the food and drug administration. you know, the fact is we have seen this over -- over the years, that they say well, we don't have the resources or it will impose more risk. the fact is this amendment provides the resources for them because those that are going to register to be able to -- to ship f.d.a.-approved drugs into this country at a better price are going to have to pay a fee. the people that are selling will pay a fee. and those pharmacies and others in our country who will be receiving will also pay a fee. this actually funds -- mr. mccain: requires no additional funding from the taxpayer? mr. dorgan: no additional funding from the taxpayer at all. those that decide that they are going to offer these lower priced prescription drugs will be paying a fee for the purpose of being able to do that, but this is not a taxpayer-funded issue at all, and it will provide the additional resources and pay for those resources without asking the taxpayers to come u

while arizona has only a month when a rate of 9.1%. the difficulty of the modification to consider when combined with the crash of the housing prices that have occurred. the states and metropolitan areas of highest unemployment rate should be taken into consideration when determining the loan modification success rates. my recommendation is for treasury to account for loans surfaced in the bible states and midwest economic states such as ohio and michigan. in short of calling in loans and nebraska's likely to be far easier than modifying loans in arizona, nevada and empire. one reason we should consider is allowing financial institutions rather than take immediate hits to the capitol when we have a modification or default about them to amortize their losses over five year program that would enable sales in some of these distressed assets as t.a.r.p. was originally intended to do and allow other participants jumped into the market to be more innovative programs like short pay off a short sales, foreclosures, conversions to leases which

north korea nfirmed today it s detained an arizona man fo illegally tering the country. family members identifd the man as 28-ar-old christian missionary robt park. supporters said he cssed from china into north korea o christmas day, uing the release of pitical prisoners. the state news agency sa today he is beininvestigated for illegal entry. on wall street today stos broke a day winning streak. the dow jones industrialverage lost more an a point to close at0,545. the nasdaqell more than 2 points to closat 2288. those are so of the day's main stories. ll be back at the end of the program with a preew of what you'll find tonit on the newshour website. but for now ck to gwen. >> ill: and still to come on the newsur: the nigerian man who tried to blow up a us pne and his links to yemen; raising healthier, bter educat children in mexico; and helpor the mentally ill in india. but fit: striking the right balance tween security and sacrifice: the costs of preventing the next atck. for that, we turn toary schiavo, forr inspector genel of the department of transporation. she's

the senator from air hairs the - from arizona has the floor. mr. sessions: would the senator yield for a question? mr. kyl: just one second. the time is going to expire in a second. i ask unanimous consent that a statement that i prepared, but not presented yet, on the increase in the insurance premiums be inserted in the bill at the conclusion of my remarks. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kyl: thank you. and also i've been given a "washington post" article, op-ed by david gearson, and ask unanimous consent that that is entered into the record. the presiding officer: without objection. the senator from alabama. mr. sessions: i understand the time on this side through the leader time is up through six minutes after the hour. is that correct? the presiding officer: the republican leader has 6 1/2 minutes reserved. mr. sessions: which -- senator kyl, isn't it the c.b.o. report this morning essentially says you cannot count the same money twice? mr. kyl: mr. president, it doesn't say you cannot. it just says that that's what would happen

the senator from arizona has been great but i think holding the other side accountable when it comes to these all these pronouncements about how this is going to be an open and transparent process. clearly that's not the case. there's something going on right now that we're not privy to a night to get some point they're going to throw something at the senator from arizona said at the while hoping this latest thing will stick. but i do want to make one observation with regard to the discussion that's been held earlier today because someone, a member of the other side, the senator from minnesota indicated he thought this chart was somehow inaccurate or misleading and i want to point out again, madam president, that the chart is very accurate. in fact the taxes and the bill began 18 days from now on to your january 12,010. an impact on the $72 billion of taxes will then collect data before the benefits that started to kick in before the paid out reman subsidies that will support the exchanges that are supposedly going to help those who don't have insurance get access to it. that's 1479

green valley, arizona? caller: yes, it is. i am a retired federal employee, and i worked 21 years for an association, and now i have been retired 13 years the man ahead of me really kind of got my dander up, because we did not get paid extravagant amounts. in fact, my compensation was lower than some of the other people in the private sector. we paid a lot of money for our own plans. i am on a fixed retirement and it is going to go up in january to $166 a month that i pay that i pay my medicare -- $166 a month that it pay, and i pay my medicare. host: how much would you say you pay out of pocket? each month for each year? caller: i have two conditions. i have a hard conviction -- i have a heart cononnd i see the doctor frequently. i am also a three-year cancer survivor. it takes a big chunk out of my monthly income. i also have drugs that i have to take because my heart condition. guest: i think she is a really good example of what a good insurance system can do for people. the fact is that although her coverage is expensive a

the clerk: the senator from arizona, mr. mccain, moves to commit the bill h.r. 3590 to the committee on finance with instructions to report the same back to the senate with changes that include applying the amendments made by section 3201-g. mr. mccain: madam president, i ask unanimous consent that further reading be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mccain: madam president, the motion i'm offering would simply commit the bill back to the finance committee for a short period to apply the same grandfathering provision in this legislation to all medicare advantage beneficiaries. now, the provision in the bill as it is specifically drafted to prevent the drastic medicare advantage cuts from impacting some seniors in florida which compares to the cuts facing medicare advantage enrollees in the rest of florida and the rest of america, including the 330,000 medicare advantage enrollees in my state. so basically what this amendment -- or this motion does is says that the -- the same benefits that have be

the senator from arizona. mr. mccain: i'm sorry that the senator from montana cannot understand that their health insurance people -- that they are health insurance, people who sell health insurance as well. aarp does, wal-mart does. if we're going to have this kind of demagoguic amendment, we should include them, especially wal-mart who does a lot of business. i would ask my colleague, the doctor -- a senator: i would ask the senator from arizona, if i may ask a question? mr. mcconnell: i would ask the senator from arizona is this the same aarp that i recall opposed a $10 billion reduction in the rate of increase in medicare spending back in 2005? mr. mccain: i would say to my colleague they not only opposed it, they got all of their members fired up in opposition to it. we all heard from them back in 2005. and these were reductions in spending. these weren't -- this was not not $438 billion taken out of medicare and put into -- in to create a new entitlement program of $2.5 trillion. mr. mcconnell: i ask my frie

the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. mr. kyl: thank you, mr. president. first of all, i want to compliment my colleague from kansas. he and i have been working on this problem of delay and denial of care, the problem of rationing of care specifically as it comes about through the comparative effectiveness research that's in this legislation for a long, long time. and i appreciate what he has said here today. given the amount of time, if i'm not able to get a little bit more time over there, i'm just going to speak off the cuff here commenting on a couple of the things that he said. i am concerned about the cost of this legislation. i'm concerned about the cuts in medicare. i'm concerned about the taxes. i'm concerned about the fact that premiums go up, not down under the legislation. i'm concerned about all sorts of things that are in this government takeover of health care in our country. but nothing concerns me more than the problem raised by my colleague from kansas. because in my view, nothing is more important to all of us all over the country than t

president, i ask unanimous consent that -- the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. mr. mccain: the senator from utah, the senator from kentucky, the senator from new hampshire, the senator from georgia, the senator from florida, and the senator from idaho -- wyoming be included -- they all run together out there -- be included in the colloquy if that -- the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mccain: mr. president, very quickly, i just want to remind my colleagues that the aarp continues to be referred to as endorsing this legislation and endorsing it and supporting and opposing amendments that would have done things that they in the past have supported, so i would just urge my colleagues to look at this woaft -- one of my favorite sources of information, opinion, "the washington post," but not advertised in this lobbying campaign have been aarp's substantial earnings from insurance royalties and the potential benefits that would come its way from many other reforms. so we have been looking into that. and guess what? the aarp endorsement of more than $400 billion

president, the senator from arizona is correct. there is a letter from the food and drug administration. you know, the fact is we've seen this over the years that they say well, we don't have the resources or it will impose more risk. the fact is this amendment provides the resources for them because those that are going to register to be able to ship fda approved drugs into this country at a better price are going to have to pay a fee that the people who are selling will pay the fee and those pharmacies and others in our country who will be receiving will also pay a fee. this actually funds -- >> no additional funding from the taxpayer. >> no additional funding from the taxpayer at all. they will offer these lower-priced prescription drugs will be paying a fee for the purpose of the novel to do that, but this is not a taxpayer-funded issue at all and it will provide additional resources and pay for those resources without asking the taxpayers to come up with the money. >> do these countries that are included in the senator's amend

the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. mr. mccain: you know, my friend, the senator from illinois, who i see back on the floor, who i, for the record, the senator from illinois, entered the house together back longer ago than we'd like to mention. particularly those who favor term limits. but -- and we've had our philosophical disagreements, but i have appreciated his leadership. i have appreciated his honest approach to the issues, and we, obviously, have significant disagreements. but those disagreements have been respectful and i look forward during the next whatever period of time until we dispense with the issue of health care reform and the issue of d.o.d. appropriations in discussing this issue with him. the senator from illinois has been saying the republicans are holding up funding for our troops. -- by not conceding to an immediate vote on the defense appropriations bill after the house sent it to the senate. i understand that. and i understand his zeal to get on to other issues, which are the job of the majority, is

ucla, arizona. bjorklund is really the only scoring threat for tennessee on the floor right now. having to work for everything. blocked by pohlen again. i bet you after this gym, tara vanderveer, you'll want to talk about appel, pedersen, she's going to want to talk about jeanette pohlen and j.j. hones. and 7,233 rise as one again. stanford looking for the payback against tennessee from last year. >> lisa: we talked about the high-low and we finally saw one with neka doing a nice job of stealing there on the baseline. >> jim: spani from outside. that won't go. pedersen. and she can run it out. stanford has not lost a game at naples pavilion since jayne appel was a freshman, three years. and now it's 35 games, they defend the house, as they beaten ten, 67-52. that's going to do it from maples pavilion. your final score, 67-52. be sure to join us january 2nd. we come right back here to maples for more of women's basketball as cal takes on number two, stanford, in the bay bridge rivalry. next, men's basketball action. number nine tennessee volunteers taking o o o o o o o o o o o

danny glover said i think the obama administration has followed the same playbook to a large extent arizona the bush administration. danny glover says, he doesn't see anything different. >> i wouldn't go that far. that is an overstatement. there are patterns we could say is similar. and afghanistan is mirroring -- >> a kanye. >> there are some issues. but domestic policy. to compare obama to bush is absurd. >> do you think danny glooefer is clear? >> think think president obama stated clearly that the next front is afghanistan. whether we agree with him or not, he clearly state wed need to withdraw from eric and go after al qaeda and al qaeda is in afghanistan. let's hold him accountable to whether or not the strategies work. is he honoring what he said he was going to do in the company? yes. and the other issue is even when it comes to the bipartisanship, when president obama said he was not going to attempt to not do business as issusual, he was no going to get contempt. that what he said hes with going do. i don't think we are going to get the health care bill. and there are other pieces

and if we could get california and those four states, utah, arizona, nevada, and mexico -- that would be a country of vast designs. and i think that what john is saying is that polk is the instrument of the sentiment that emerge. and i make the point that he emerged very powerfully in america, largely from the annexation of texas. >> go back to the diary. did you read it in credit or longhand form? >> i get to frustrated trying to read the handwriting of the 19th century. i read the version published by the chicago public library. i went over it very carefully. >> google has got it. you can watch it on your computer. did you read it all? >> oh, yes, i read it all. multiple times. i took notes from it. i came very close to memorizing it. >> if you had the four volumes, how big was it? >> each was 500 pages. >> you that 2000 pages of typed diary. >> >> james buchanan was considered our worst president. very disloyal to polk. and he had an inability to fire the man. he cannot abide face-to-face confrontation. he was almost cowardly face-to- face, and i do not think that was an unfair cha

texas and arizona, but very effective. tuscon sector and think has been fully implemented and i think part of the reason may be a look of detention space so to questions. what are your plans with expanding operations streamline? if so where you think it might be, and then secondly i will get into the question of detention space. >> i think first of all i support operation streamline. i think it is effective. i think with respect to the tucson sector which is by magnitude the larger sector that we have, they provide logistical difficulties. i think we have the dead space available. i think we are de silva-- solving your detention issues. we had an issue with the ninth circuit, piece of these streamline that has just come down a couple of days ago, about how please are done in streamline matters and given the volume of cases, and i know you know that courthouse well, we have had to be working out there in terms of how are going to operationally address the court of appeals concerns so we continue to streamline in the tucson

the senator from arizona is recognized. mr. mccain: madam president, it is my understanding we are now on the fiscal year 2010 consolidated appropriations act. the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. mr. mccain: i ask unanimous consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mccain: mr. president, i'll have a lot to say about this 3,000-page omnibus appropriations bill, but i would point out to my colleagues that it is loaded with 9,000 -- excuse me 4,452 earmarks totaling $207 billion. six bills totaling $450 billion, 1,351 pages long, 409 pages of earmarks, spending on domestic programs has increased by 14%. veteran spending has increased by 5%. that shows the priorities around here. let me repeat that. domestic spending programs increased by 14%, military construction and veterans has increased by only 5%. here we go again, just a matter of months ago in march, the senate passed a mondays russ -- monsterus a appropriations bill loaded up with e

we have attempted them in the past in arizona specifically. we do not have any now we do fly some radar along the southwestern border. one of the things we are asking is specifically the capability. if he believes that is a proper platform to take a look at it. this is the good thing about the way the relationship works between the border patrol, fbi net, and whoever the contractor will be. we articulate requirements. this is what we need from an operational perspective. they do the research and assess what can bring this that capability in the most effective and reasonable manner. >> it is so expensive. the blinds are being used by the military and weather services. -- the blimps are being used. one of my concerns about cameras on polls is that they can be shot at -- cameras on poles. you do not get the really high surveillance that allows you to look over into mexico. we will talk more about that later. >> i will now recognize ms. jackson lee for five minutes. >> let me thank you for the hearing. the background of a number of my questions wi

at 6'4" junior from arizona, number 14, kayla pedersen. at forward, 6'2" sophomore from cypress, texas, ogwumike, number 2, jayne appel. from queens, new york, number 21, ros gold-onwude. at guard, a 6-foot junior from california, number 23, jeanette pohlen. the cardinal are assisted by bobbie kelsey and kate paye. and the head coach of the cardinal, tara vanderveer. >> jim: a huge following on the peninsula. stanford university, 7,233, and they're still trying to find some seats. we told you the history goes back to 1989, and tennessee has the upper hand including 13 of the last 14. tennessee also won last year's meeting in knoxville, but that one went overtime, 79-69. overtime seems to be a theme. two years ago here at maples pavilion, these two clubs went overtime again. stanford won that time. 73-69. the series dates back to 1989, the very first meeting, stanford won by 14. afterwards pat summitt after losing addressed the stanford booster club because tara vanderveer asked her to, and that's who pat summitt is. she lives up to her wor

therefore an iconic figure, so for the reasons i said trying him in new york host: next up is chandler, arizona. christine on our republican line. welcome to the "washington journal." caller: yes. thank you. first i think it's ironic that all the black people calling this morning are calling sailing they are for racial profiling. but the ma sod, we were attacked because of our support of israel and the palestinians. host: christine, do you have any evidence of that? caller: yes, look at the 9/11 commission reports. now it's they are writing bills right and left because they have a strangal hold on both parties of congress. host: we're going to leave it there. she is starting to go off the rail. on our line for independents. go ahead. caller: you can look at what motivated highjackers at american highjack.com. host: in o'needa our line for democrats. caller: good morning. we're talking on the subject of hometown grill off here and all the things -- home homeland security we've learned we really haven't done no such secure this country. now i wonder if you're aware of executive order 12425 signed

and when i was -- i lived in texas, arizona, and california. and the lower parts of those states are frauth with illegal immigrants walking into hospitals. in fact one hospital administrator was screaming on the border that they are absolutely breaking them, because congress pass ad law that you cannot ask for their i.d. or a green card. you have to serve them. and he said they are breaking the hospitals because they bring them across the border and drop them off by the truckloads with tb, colera and every other kind of disease and the taxpayers have to pay for it. and yet when it comes to our children or us going in, i can't go into any american hospital as a citizen and get free care. so i'm really concerned that there's children here that are american citizens that can't get help, and i'm not cruel about not helping people. i'd like to help everybody, but there's a limit. this is drawing money from the purse of the taxpayers to go into the coffers of someone else. host: thank you. senator hague snn guest: well, you've got two issues here. on

as the senator from arizona has so eloquently stated, this omnibus appropriation bill represents a 12% increase over last year, a fiscal year that ended with the largest deficit in american history of of $1.4 trillion. i don't know of any other area in the economy where people are spending 12% over what they spent last year. no family in america, no business in america is spending 12% more this year than they did last year. while we see 10% of our people unemployed. millions of families across the country and small businesses are, in fact, tightening their budgets. but the budgets of these federal agencies, and of the federal government itself, keeps expanding. 33% increase of spending for foreign operations. a 23% increase in transportation, housing, and urban development. one of the worst things that this spending is doing is creating tremendous uncertainty, both here at home and other places like china, which are buying our debt, about whether we are ever going to get serious about our fiscal responsibility. the president asked last week why job creators were not stepping up and cre

host: our last call comes from mesa, arizona. jim, on our line for republicans. caller: there are a few things that juliet has said that i would like to correct. in arizona, we have been a dry state,ç but the tree huggers he not let us clean up our forests. they will not let us clean up our debris. then we are talking about al gore and how great he is on this. why won't he debate anybody unless obama and nancy pelosi, john kerry, they all fly their private jets around like they are going to the cne