"(d) duration.-if the secretary determines it appropriate to conduct the demonstration project under this subsection, the secretary shall conduct the project for a four year period beginning not later than january 1, 2015. "(e) funding.-the secretary shall provide for the transfer from the federal hospital insurance trust fund under section 1817 of the social security act (42 u.s.c. 1395i) and the federal supplementary medical insurance trust fund established under section 1841 of such act (42 u.s.c. 1395t), in such proportion as the secretary determines appropriate, of $500,000,000 for the period of fiscal years 2015 through 2018. such funds shall be made available for the study described in paragraph (1) and the design, implementation and evaluation of the demonstration described in this paragraph. amounts available under this subparagraph shall be available until expended. "(f) evaluation and report.-if the secretary determines it appropriate to conduct the demonstration project under this subsec

"(d) assessment.-the prescription drug plan sponsor shall have in place a process to assess, at least on a quarterly basis, the medication use of individuals who are at risk but not enrolled in the medication therapy management program, including individuals who have experienced a transition in care, if the prescription drug plan sponsor has access to that information. "(e) automatic enrollment with ability to opt-out.-the prescription drug plan sponsor shall have in place a process to- "(i) subject to clause (ii), automatically enroll targeted beneficiaries described in subparagraph (a)(ii), including beneficiaries identified under subparagraph (d), in the medication therapy management program required under this subsection; and "(ii) permit such beneficiaries to opt-out of enrollment in such program.". (b) rule of construction.-nothing in this section shall limit the authority of the secretary of health and human services to modify or broaden requirements for a medication therapy management program

d, adjustments. the secretary may adjust the rates described in subsection b if the secretary determines appropriate on account of the volatility of the individual market due to the establishment of state exchanges. e, standard hospital charges. each hospital operating within the united states shall for each year establish and update and make public in accordance with the guidelines developed by the secretary a list of the hospital's standard charges for items and services provided by the hospital, including for diagnosis-related groups established under section 1886 d 4 of the social security act. g, section 2719 of the public health service act, as added by section 1001-4 of this act is amendedded to read as follows. section 2719. appeals process. a, internal claims appeals. a group health plan and a health insurance insurer offering group or individual health insurance coverage shall implement an effective appeals process for appeals of coverage determinations and claims undercher the plan or insu

"(d) chairperson. one chairperson of the task force shall be appointed by the secretary at the time of appointment of members under subsection (c), selected from among the members appointed under paragraph (1). "(e) meetings. the task force shall meet at the call of the chairperson. "(f) report. not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this act, the task force shall submit to congress a report detailing the activities of the task force and containing the findings, strategies, recommendations, policies, and initiatives developed pursuant to the duty described in subsection (b)(2). in preparing such report, the task force shall consider completed and ongoing efforts by federal agencies to improve access to health care in the state of alaska. "(g) termination. the task force shall be terminated on the date of submission of the report described in subsection (f).". (c) section 399v of the public health service act, as added by section 5313, is amended- (1) in subsection (b)(4), by striking "i

(g) section 2105(d)(3)(b) of the social security act (42 u.s.c. 1397ee(d)(3)(b)), as added by section 2101(b)(1), is amended by adding at the end the following: "for purposes of eligibility for premium assistance for the purchase of a qualified health plan under section 36b of the internal revenue code of 1986 and reduced cost-sharing under section 1402 of the patient protection and affordable care act, children described in the preceding sentence shall be deemed to be ineligible for coverage under the state child health plan.". (h) clause (i) of subparagraph (c) of section 513(b)(2) of the social security act, as added by section 2953 of this act, is amended to read as follows: "(i) healthy relationships, including marriage and family interactions.". (i) section 1115 of the social security act (42 u.s.c. 1315) is amended by inserting after subsection (c) the following: "(d) (1) an application or renewal of any experimental, pilot, or demonstration project undertaken under subsection (a) to promote the objectives of title xix or xxi in a state that would result in an impact on eligibi

(d) chair.the president shall designate 1 of the members of the board, other than the secretary, to serve at the will of the president as chair of the board. (e) compensation.-members of the board (other than the secretary) shall be entitled to compensation at a level equivalent to level ii of the executive schedule, in accordance with section 5313 of title 5, united states code. (f) general duties of the board.- (1) in general.-the board shall develop policies, procedures, guidelines, and requirements to carry out this title, including those related to- (a) eligibility; (b) enrollment; (c) benefits; (d) provider participation standards and qualifications, as defined in subtitle c; (e) national and state funding levels; (f) methods for determining amounts of payments to providers of covered services, consistent with part ii of subtitle d; (g) the determination of medical necessity and appropriateness with respect to coverage of certain services; (h) assisting state health security programs with

"(d) references. except as otherwise specified, any reference in federal law to an office of minority health (in the department of health and human services) is deemed to be a reference to the office of minority health in the office of the secretary. "(e) funding. "(1) allocations. of the amounts appropriated for a specified agency for a fiscal year, the secretary must designate an appropriate amount of funds for the purpose of carrying out activities under this section through the minority health office of the agency. in reserving an amount under the preceding sentence for a minority health office for a fiscal year, the secretary shall reduce, by substantially the same percentage, the amount that otherwise would be available for each of the programs of the designated agency involved. "(2) availability of funds for staffing. the purposes for which amounts made available under paragraph may be expended by a minority health office include the costs of employing staff for such office.". (2) no new regula

. >> brown: d i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight,utch ofcials called the preparation of the plot "fairly profsional, "but its executn, "amateurish." >> ifill: why didn't anye connect the dots a can anything be done to il future attacks? we'll explore that with membs of the 9-11 commissi. >>rown: and we'll get the views of two repsentatives on what congress did and did nodo in t past and should do noto prevent more terrorist incidents. >> ifill: also tonig, from san francisc spencer michels reporton a battle about putting terature online. >> googlis in the process of digitizing 40 million brooke not everyoneelieves one mpany should conol that much knowledge. >> brown: anmargaret warner talks to autr kati marton about heparents-- hungarian jonalists targeted by the secret police in the 195. >> i think it'really important for usn our country to understand t human cost of the cold warefore all the witness to it disappear. >> ifill: that all ahead on tonight's "pbsewshour." major fundinfor the pbs newshour is pr

"(d) report.-the secretary shall submit to the congress an annual report on the program carried out under this section.". (2) section 770(a) of the public health service act (42 u.s.c. 295e(a)) is amended to read as follows: "(a) in general.-for the purpose of carrying out this subpart, there is authorized to be appropriated $43,000,000 for fiscal year 2011, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2012 through 2015.". (n) (1) subsection (i) of section 331 of the public health service act (42 u.s.c. 254d) of the public health service act is amended- (a) in paragraph (1), by striking "in carrying out subpart iii" and all that follows through the period and inserting "in carrying out subpart iii, the secretary may, in accordance with this subsection, issue waivers to individuals who have entered into a contract for obligated service under the scholarship program or the loan repayment program under which the individuals are authorized to satisfy the requirement of obligated serv

some had visas, some d not. whenever you rely on nad-based system, which is what the wat list is, that can also be circumstance crumb 7d by pho documents and trading off documentonce you're in a erile area. >> did schanzer, seems like a lot of costs we'realking about here the cost of the actu physical equipment, of getting thmoney. the cost of whatou give up once y agree to this sort of -- at some people consider to be an iasive technology. what wld you say the costs are? >> well, you've named some o them. the fact of the matter is live in a world limited resource so we have to make tradeoffs a choices out which set of polies and which sets of technologies we want tdeploy. your other guest mentioned fr differt types of machines. well, i don't think we're ing to be able to deoy four differt new types of machines, not only in the ited states, t we would need to depy these thingslobally to truly protect us. i'm not saying we shouldn'have screening devices. absolutely we ould. all i'm saying is that y have to csider

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d we will notest until find all who were involved and hold th accountable. >> mr. oa confirmed e goverent is reviewing screening procedures well as s watch list system of known and suspected terrorists. shortly beforee spoke, the group ala in the abian peninsulalaimed respoibility for at tempt sayingn an internet postinthat it came in response to u.s. strikes at its membe in yemen. inis remarksoday esident obama vowed to continue huntingl qeda. >> the united stes will me than simply strengten our defens, we will continue to use every element of our national power to disrupt, to dismantle and defeat the violent extremists who threaten us, whetherhey are from afghastan or pakista yemen or smalia, or anywherehere they are plottingttacks against the u.s. homeland. >> ill: what's known so far? 23-year-old umar faro abdulmutallab bought his ticket with $2800 in cash on december 16th. he ecked no bags. he boarded the pla in lagos a cleared securit there as well as in amsterdamhere the flight made stop-ove the jet was on fin approach to detro when abdulmutaab aegedly tried

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d i'm going to continue that practice.but i don'think anybody in the room is -- tt we don't thinthis bill ought to pa and we're not in a hurry to cplete it. sreenivasan: democrats charged the republicanhave nothing bett to offer, so they are simply otructing progress. >> the they have faid to produce any legislatn that has gone through the scrutinyhis legislation has faced in termst of its il pact on america, its impact on our budget, ey are empty-handed. at they bring to us on the floor of the senate ar speechespress releases, charts and graph and an occaonal criticism. >> sreenivas: a critical seri of votes to cut off dete could come on monday. but that will take 60 votes and nebraa democrat ben lson was still holding out for tighter restriions on abortionunding. he said day there's been some progress in talks with pty leaders. wall street finishedhe week on an upbt note after a 3-day slide e dow jones industrial avera gained more than0 points to cle above 10328. the nasdaq rose mo than 31 ints to close at 2211. for the

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d all a total of 15 million mo people are able to go into medicd. then for other better f people they will be ab to y coverage through new insurance exchange either at thfederal level or at the statlevel. and this wilgive people a choice of array of oducts with a federal help depending on your income, tax credits to help suppor the purcha of the verage. >> woodruff: qckly, some people still will not, eve der this legislation, will still not be able to g health covere. >> that's right. >> woodruff: and w are they? >>hey will be people witht will be able to claim th they need to be exemptrom a new individual ndate on coverage that will go in effect starting in 2013 or 12014, ople who can't afford it fo affordability grounds. pele who are in the country illegally will n be able toccess -- will not haveny provision of verage. they will beble to get care in many instances through the commity health coverage -- pending whether it ithe senate or house rsion there could be as many as 1to 23 million pele without coverage at thend of the line. >> let mtick of

jennifer jones was 90 years d. those arsome of the day's main stories. i'll bback at the end of the program with a preview owhat you'll find night on the "newshour's" web sit but for now, back to jim. >>ehrer: and still to come on the "newshour": cooking stov anthe environment in india; improvg public schools in tucs; and fighting drugs in mexico. thatollows an update on getting heal care reform done in the senate. ewshour" health corresponden bettann bowser has our report. >> we e going to finish this healthare bill before we leave for the hodays here. >> reporte a self-imposed christmas deadne loomed over senate majity leader harry reid and h democratic ranks toda but deite his insistence, it was not clear they'll ma it. that's partly because esident obama hearing more from those on the pitical left who accuse him of givg up on key reforms like theovernment-funded blic option. >> i think, at ts point, the bill ds more harthan good. >> reporter:ormer democratic party chairman howardean is now ging democrats to scrap the current billnd start over. >> the

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wall street had an up d down day. dow jones industri average ended by gaining oneoint to close at 10,466. the nasdaq rose arly 17 points to finish at 2,269. ose are some of the day's ma stories. i'll be back at the end the program with a preew of what you'll find toght on the "newshour's" web site. t for now, back to gwen. >> ifill: annow, violence in two nations, one far away,he other right next door. we start in mexico wre an ongoing dr war took a gruesome turn this week. ray suarez begins our covege. >> reporter: the wave drug killings spreading acrosmexico in rent years, invaded paradise monday night. thfamily of a navy commando was rdered in the gulf coast town of parais- spanish for "paradise"-- ian act of reprisal. gunmen broke into the me of ensign melisedet angulo cÓrdova d gunned down his mother, brother, sisr and an aunt. just hours earlier, they had stood vigil as aulo was buried. he died duri the operation last week that killed arro beltran leyva, head ofne of mexico's large drug cartels. xican president

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they can't read or writer can't d or subtract. to tin them in a significant way the next year, year-and-a-half. so ion't believe we're going to lve in a year-and-a-half. >> lehrer:ongressman pence, you have been estioning the ve idea of an 18-month withdrawal, t withdrawal deadlineut a target date to begin thwithdrawal. u still feel the same way? >> well, let me sa jim, first what i do ree with the president on. i think house republics like most americans appreciate the president making a decisn to respond to t call for reinforcements in the eld. after three nths of deliberations, the predent has essentially given neral mcchrystal, his n picked general r the theater in afghanistathe resources and the manpow that he says he eds to get the job done and come home safe. so we welcome thatnd we support e president's policy. i also think it was importt last week, jim, thathe president took some time a week ago at west pointo remind the amerin people whathe stakes are here. the prident reminded us that we were atcked from the al qaeda. a

>> larry: a d, okay.ounded like it would be a c based on the a in there, but professor reich -- >> depends how much weight you give the a. >> larry: the only man who grades papers might have a thought. >> i've been doing it all day, larry. in terms of aspiration and goals and ideals i would give him an a. in terms of effort, just a sheer brute, getting in there and trying, the administration i give an a minus maybe an a in terms of deliverables, what they've done so far, i have to be a much harsher grader, b minus at best. i'm worried mostly about the economy. i think that there is no reason for the obama administration to claim that we're out of the woods. most americans don't believe it. >> larry: and s.e., your grade? >> it's almost christmas. i'm going to be charitable and give him a d minus. >> larry: that's charitable? >> yeah. i don't want to be the scold here and say f. but systematically is dismantling our national security, we're at record unemployment. he is going to have to answer for geithner

how do you d that? people have miakenly thought about pakistan as a refuge r the bad guys afgnistan. it is thother way aund. think of afghanian as the place of refe and the -- refuge for radical iam in pakistan. if they are attacking as they are the northern teitories, you want the americs in afghistan holding the border and preventing escape and regrouping. that is at is happening here, a war one side of the border and the other. >> the pakistanis areaying a pretty steep price, with a daily bombgs. general petraeus, in an terview with npr, went through the leaderip of the taliban and al qaeda, by name,nd he said that they are in pakistan. >> let's talk se morebout afghanistan. >> it is noclear how an expanded military effort in afghanistan dresses the problem of taliban and aqaeda safe havens across the bder in pakistan. >> the shortfall isot a shortage of americanombat troops. it is shorte of afghan troops. >> senators richa lugar and carl levin u want to see bipartisanship onhe hill? barrett is, a le

william d. novelli, his salary last year was $1 mill 971 -- $1,971,000.scott serota of blue-cross/blue shield, $1.6 million. chicken feed. senator from utah. >> well, i thank the senator from arizona. my mind goes back to a personal experience that i had that i would like to share with my friends on the left. an entirely different bill. the bill was no child left behind. we were all for it on this side of the aisle because our president had proposed it, and my staffer said to me listening to the debate, you know, senator if president clinton had proposed it, you would vote against it because you would think it is too heavy handed government interference. and i said, you know, you are right, and i had to do the right thing, and i voted against it. if we had proposed what the democrats are proposing, every argument we are hearing would be coming with great roars and insistent statements on the other side of the aisle, but because it is their president who proposed it, they are somehow keeping their consciences under control here. i would hope that they woul

. >> i would be ppy to do it but he mentioned allhese different princiess, but then in the end d this is true about obama, says there is no reci. you have to go case by case. and soe made the case for afghanistan. and i thinhe pretty much saidi started out as someone o is suspicious going in. i arted out suspicious of staying where were but i was dragged byhe evidence by pragmatic rsons that we had top our ante. and the se made specifically to the europes is that the govement understand the responsibility but the americaneople were much more suspiciouand a bit of what he is did in that speech was try tpersuade the americ people to supportheir government. >> the damage inflicteupon the country going to war must be seous, must be grav and must be lasting. it must have exhausted all other means of rolving the dispute bere you go to war. or is seen as a last rest. and third this is a ju r. and that oer means must be seens practical, ineffective,aving been exhausd. there mu be a reason for a chance of suess and of course you musbe proportional tthe ends is out inodern war that obviously in

it will also cause the cost of the part-d program to go up. in addition, accounting rules for retiree benefits will require that the businesses that do keep offering plans -- offering these benefits -- will have to report the total revised cost on the day the bill becomes law. so we have this opt he'd written in the wall street -- opt ed written in "the wall street journal," written about this. this could cause businesses to post millions of dollars in losses and significantly impact an already struggling economy. is this something that you want to do when we still have 10% unemployment? i think that the majority ought to give second thought to that. a letter sent on december 11th, from the chief financial officers of some of the largest employers in the country stated -- quote -- "the impact of the proposed medicare part-d changes would be felt throughout the overall u.s. economy as corporate entities an investors would be -- and investors would be forced to act." another letter signed by the afl-cio stated that this provision would -- quote

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e ittor be happy to look at d liork ont and see what we can do with that. andngure the director will look at it. entare looking at the guidelines and also with the palmement of commerce to see what would make sense in the environment. lecause as you say these investments lead to american jobs. i i very much appreciate that. es to be saved in the airports, but you wonder sometimes about all of the rigor role on the ages of the very young to the very old. and the question arises in my mind as to whether we are not over react team. we had the white house ball on monday night. i didn't see you there. >> i was there. all dressed up. >> big crowd. my credential was checked three times as they walked through a long line. was yours checked three times? >> no, i walked right in. [laughter] >> well, i will not ask you why you have preferred status because i know you are entitled to it. it raises the question in my mind that i'm glad to be checked as often as they want to check us going into the white house. but it's a reaction to the gatecrashers, obviously of a coup

when it goes d to d, if they don't have a pass, they are chipping it back to the d, using a lot of delayso control the puck which means the opposition doesn't have it a lot. >> washington threatening jeff deslauriers. surprisingly there's no score on the board after we look at the highlights after one. >> craig: they were trying to go high on this kid, jeff deslauriers. his catching glove working in the first period. fleischmann at the other end. that was the catching glove. high lanes, the caps seeing more commotion i would think against deslauriers the way he started out. they will need second and third shots. these teams in the mode of stopping the initial shot here tonight. >> joe: a little more east-west movement wouldn't hurt as well. presented by your washington chevy dealers. >> doug: only three scores chances. blocked a ton of shots to help out the net minder. the caps nominated the faceoff circle. look for set faceoff plays to lead to a goal here tonight. >> joe: the highest scoring team from our nation's capital without a goal after 20 minutes. plenty of caps' fans hoping it wi

d we'll see more about how that playeout whenohn's series connues later this ek. >>rown: next, thefand curity in cyberspace. a frontpage story in today's "wl street journal" details a computer attack against financial giant, citigro, that y have resulted in the theft of mlions of dollars. the company has denied the attack took place. but the journasays the fbi is vestigating and linking the crime to a russian cyber gg. and in wasngton today, president obama named a w national cybercurity coordinator. howard smidt will oversee the gornment's efforts to secure its own computers anwork with companies in the private secr. we look at all this now,ith: and james les, director and senior fellow of thetechnology and public policy"rogram... at thecenter for strategic and international studies"ere in washington. >> brown: let's start with t reportf the attack on city group. not a lot of details wdon't know here. how comm are attacks on financial institutions? >> they're more frequent tn you might think. 10 to a year is one number i've heard. about inhis range. you know, mil

states in plain english -- quote -- "include recommendations to reduce medicare payments under c and d. now, let me translate that into english for everybody here. that means that the commission can cut medicare advantage, which is medicare part-c, and the medicare prescription drug benefit, which is medicare part-d. making sure that we take enough time to discuss a 2,074-page bill that will affect every american life and every american business is the sacred duty of every senator in this chamber. we will take as long as it takes to fully discuss this bill, and it's going to take some time, as you can imagine with that big pile of paper. i've heard several members from the other side of the aisle characterize the medicare advantage program as a giveaway to the insurance industry. now, let me say a few words for a minute about the creation of medicare advantage. i served, as i said, as a member of the house-senate conference committee which wrote the medicare modernization act of 2003. so did the distinguished senator from montana, senator baucus. among other things, this law created the

then there is mobile d-tv.television industry adopted a new mobile television standard turning on the green light for manufacturing and implementation. the results are nothing short of stunning. members of the committee, this is a mobile tv. right now, it is playing a program from nbc. there are seven channels in the washington, d.c. metropolitan area that are doing this. it is also a cell phone. this combination of technology is the future, i believe, of mobile wireless communications. it is not an exaggeration to say that you will soon be able to receive broadcast television signals on any device this is an example. soon, your blackberry will be a tv. your iphone could be a tv. you name it, we are on the cost of it. to short circuit it now seems to me would be very unwise. broadcasting's ability -- and this is important to understand -- broadcasting's ability to serve one to many bend with segments is unique among all services. at moments of national significance or tragedy, when millions of americans are see

so far so very good for d. c.>> joe: sometimes and early penalty goes a long way. >> greg: i said don't get in penalty trouble early in the game. must move the puck. here come it is caps umbrella on the power play. and ovechkin just a wicked slap shot as his 21st and also an assist. and toskala has 8 saves so far. tough say 2 or 3 of them were keeping the team in the game. >> joe: ovechkin, throughout his five year in the nhl has been a wonderful fire-starter, and igniter of the offense. he did it again, scored a goal for the 8th time this season. white, green together. and morrison sends it on through. backstrom should and he will. ovechkin flying past. right to the waiting white. shawn shawn in -- shaone morrisonn in tight quarters. and handling the puck, ovechkin sends that one on a hop. a lot of starch on it. >> i love the movement of the top 3 at the goal. they are really moving their bodies. sort of like a harlem globetrotter's criss-cross sequence. >> joe: if you are just tuning in, ovechkin and backstrom o

and comprehensive plan, whether you're new to medicare part d... or you've been covered for a while. so stop in and stay well. cheese! walgreens. there's a way to stay well. >> we're back with the suze girl. we have an e-mail. >> here's my new thing, credit unions, especially federally chartered, the maximum interest rate they can charge you is 18%. while that may sound like a very high interest rate, the truth of the matter is many of these banks today are charging 29.99% interest. here is what i'm suggesting. the united states of america, all of you should start looking into credit union credit cards and do a balance transfer. how do you find a good credit union credit card where they won't charge you a balance transfer fee, the interest rate is 8%, things like that, i want you to go to a site called creditcardconnection.org. it is a new site, credit unions you should all want to start to register with this site where it gives the credit unions a rating, you put in your zip code and up will come a credit union in your area that has a good rate, t

the d gets it, hold it here. here comes the hard around.deciding to pinch or wait for this guy to come. so the faceoff is held, mike green holding the line. hold it here. now it's trouble. greeny is here. schultzy is supported. but he's hoping for someone over there. the puck bounces on him. giving it away. up the middle, no, no, give and go. breakaway. told it here. now you have one here, one here, one coming in, no one picking up that guy, and that's trouble because the first save is made by the goal tender, there's the followup. you have got to go harder on the back check and pick guys up. enjoy the journey. . >> where areny coming -- journey coming to an end soon for the capitals. they need two to tie and we will share it with you just after this. boss: ah! thank goodness you're back. gecko: what's going on, sir? boss: we're slammed. tons of people interested in all the money they could be saving by switching to geico... gecko: yeah, 'course. boss: boy, did we miss you last week. that temp wasn't working out at all. exec: took me all mo

it will also cause the cost of the part-d program to go up., accounting rules for retiree benefits will require that the businesses that do keep offering plans -- offering these benefits -- will have to report the total revised cost on the day the bill becomes law. so we have this opt he'd written in the wall street -- opt ed written in "the wall street journal," written about this. this could cause businesses to post millions of dollars in losses and significantly impact an already struggling economy. is this something that you want to do when we still have 10% unemployment? i think that the majority ought to give second thought to that. a letter sent on december 11th, from the chief financial officers of some of the largest employers in the country stated -- quote -- "the impact of the proposed medicare part-d changes would be felt throughout the overall u.s. economy as corporate entities an investors would be -- and investors would be forced to act." another letter signed by the afl-cio stated that this provision would -- quote -- "unnecess

how many d? everybody else d. did anybody say e? what is your message to congress? what should they hear from you? you said democrats and republicans are equally to blame because they only play politics and worry about who will get credit or blame. >> regardless -- everybody has an agenda. if you want to make a decision for the people, the need to make those decisions for the betterment of those people the unemployment rate is going to get higher. you have to be mindful that these are the people that get you where you need to be in life, so you need to give back to them. >> anybody else? tell me what you are saying when you areb -- when you circled b. >> they are a servant of the people who elected them to the office. >> and you don't think they are servants anymore? >> i think there self-serving. they have decided on their own enrichment. >> they care about themselves more than the people. they do not do anything for us. they are worried about their own money and their own traveling and everything but us. >> write-down on the blue piece of paper the one thing that

i'm also a d. and i've taken the other two institutes so i'm just rounding out the third. >> great. >> my name is gerald from long island, new york. a democrat. i interned in then-senator clinton's office last year then did some field work for the obama campaign. and heard nothing but good things. >> my name is gretchen foul. i'm a first year applied politics master's student. i'm from st. paul, minnesota. i've worked a few campaigns in minnesota and then i helped with a campaign to replace rahm emanuel in the fifth district and i'm here because i hope to be managing campaigns at some point. >> i'm from loudon county, virginia. i'm a first year grad student and i worked for mcdonald for governor and huckabee and john mccain for president last year and i'm a republican. >> i'm stephanie slade. i am also a first year grad student from tampa, florida. no campaign experience. i would consider myself an open-minded r. i'm here out of interest in political communications. >> my name is amy. i'm a first y

it's section d, titled referral. the legislation introduced under this paragraph shall be referred to the presiding officers of the prospective houses, to the committee on finance in the senate, and to the committee on energy and commerce, and the committee on ways and means in the house of representatives. the bill creates out of whole cloth a new rule that this specific bill must be referred to the senate finance committee. another example under section c, titled "committee jurisdiction." and it references rule here. "notwithstanding rule 15 of the standing rules of the senate, a committee amendment described in subparagraph a may include matter not within the jurisdiction of the committee on finance if that matter is relevant to a proposal contained in the bill submitted under subsection c-3. clearly a rule change. so there's no pretense that this bill is being referred under the rules of the committee of jurisdiction. and now it is allowing the finance committee to add whatever matter it wants to the bill, regard

and comprehensive plan, whether you're new to medicare part d...u've been covered for a while. so stop in and stay well. cheese! walgreens. there's a way to stay well. . >> larry: i want to apologize. we got cut off for a glitch in one of the cities. and i will go back to penn jillette and health care the senate democratic compromise and looks like it's going jetson. what do you make of it. >> medicare early is a very big deal and is moving to the little ral agenda than the public option. i think it's a little bit, for her, spending our way of a recession, fighting our way out of a war and regulating our way to more health care choice are contradictory ideas. it makes me feel smart but uncomfortable. >> shouldn't we have some sort wt about care in amerian?% and better than the public option. i think medicare for all is where we are going and we are going to strengthen it over time like medicare or civil rights. i'm really happen. don't tell the right wingers like ben stein. we hate what happened. >> i don't consider -- ben stein, you never know whe

that's somebody that is very well respected on the majority d it's something we've been saying. and they're saying the same thing. the fact is we're, what we're going to do is put 15 million people into medicaid that we know has worse outcomes, we know is an unfunded mandate on the states, and we know 40% of the doctors refuse to see this. so you're not going to get to choose the doctor that you want. you are going to have state mandates in terms of what is available to you and what is not. so we violated two of the key premises with which to reform health care. i'd also like to quote what i thought is a brilliant letter by a dr. robert geist from st. paul, minnesota, written as a letter to the editor in the "wall street journal" today. and the title of his letter to the editor is "the first cost comptroller will be your own doctor." it's something i've been talking about since we started this. the last thing we want to do in health care in america is to make it where the doctor is not 100% advocate for the patient's best interest. and he quotes very directly the transfer. he sa

and comprehensive plan, whether you're new to medicare part d... or you've been covered for a while. so stop in and stay well. cheese! walgreens. there's a way to stay well. i was just in town for a few days, and i was wondering if i could say hi to the doctor. is he in? he's in copenhagen. oh, well, that's nice. but you can still see him! you just said he was in... copenhagen. come on! that's pretty far. doc, look who's in town. ellen! copenhagen? cool, right? vacation. but still seeing patients. oh. [ whispering ] workaholic. i heard that. she said it. i... [ female announcer ] the new office. see it. live it. share it. on the human network. cisco. i just want fewer pills and relief that lasts all day. take 2 extra strength tylenol every 4 to 6 hours?!? taking 8 pills a day... and if i take it for 10 days -- that's 80 pills. just 2 aleve can last all day. perfect. choose aleve and you can be taking four times... fewer pills than extra strength tylenol. just 2 aleve have the strength to relieve arthritis pain all day. >> jim: welcome back to larry

we learned that changing your medicare part d plan could save an average of $612. woman: we just entered my prescriptions, and it compared plans for us. it was easy to find the right plan for the prescriptions i need. your cvs pharmacist can help, too. come in today, or go to cvs.com before december 31st to find the best plan for you -- at cvs/pharmacy. >>> in a wooden shack in a remote corner of the amazon forest, armed men pore over maps and make last minute plans. they're all here, more than 200 of them, to try and put a stop to the animal poachers and loggers who are tearing this forest apart. it's an effort led by ibama, brazil's environmental protection agency. these officers from the federal police are teaming up with ibama agents. they're about to go out on patrol, for ibama's secrecy is key. if word leaks out that they're here, the illegal loggers will simply disappear into the rainforest. official says more than 1,000 people have died in the past 20 years in battles over the amazon's resources. agents get word over the radio there might be an encampment o