kentucky is missing shots. you can't allow a second and third attempt. >> matt: kentucky is a great rebounding team. 32 rebounds per game. number nine in the nation in rebounding margin, plus 10.6. wall, his third three-pointer. >> kyle: hard not to talk about wall. he felt like his team needed a boost. shot the wide-open three. wow! >> matt: john wall, nine points, two assists. three of three on the three-point shooting already in the ballgame. >> kyle: now you hear the crowd excited. deandre liggins checked in the game. he played the last minute of the last contest. been in the doghouse for whatever reason. no explanation given. coach calipari liked the play. he recruited him heavily at memphis and he feels like he can improve the team pushing the player above him. excellent athlete. plays good defense. very long and fast. >> matt: fraley keeps it going for the governors. fraley with eight points. he's not yet missed a shot from the floor. >> kyle: i think they'd be going to him more. >> matt: fraley no doubt

great defense by kentucky. made him change his shot. >> kyle: did you see the two defenders that went to the block. point guard, bledsoe and wall. patterson. tempo has quickened. >> matt: much to austin peay's detriment. patterson going for 20th point. 1 19 points. eight rebounds. close to double-double. 40th on kentucky all-time scoring list as he's gone over 8 1200 for his career. 19 now 20 today. 1205 point. >> kyle: you have to be a fan of patrick patterson. he doesn't get in the hoopla. he had a history of playing second fiddlefiddle. played at the same high school. >> matt: same here. great recruiting class. he embraces it. >> matt: last week jodie meeks dropped him 50 in a game. can't buy a break. roberson. new career high for him. 16 points. mosely. mosely hadn't played a lot today. freshman out of louisville. got it back. fumbled it out of bounds. >> kyle: having trouble holding the basketball. >> matt: orton with an easy dunk. have to wait another day to get that one. 3:16 to play. honey... the credit

the top five teams in the country are all -- kansas, texas, villanova, purdue, kentucky. aldrich, knocked away. dragovic came from the weak side to help out. >> marques: nice activity in front with nikola dragovic to get the blocked shot. >> steve: time-out on the floor. 7:30 left. ku looking like a number one team. 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 morning but i got those quarterly figures for ... you. (hissingoise, gulping) gecko: aw, he ate all my mints. anncr: geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >>> when you're in l.a. the stars come out to watch the big games in cuba gooding junior. help me help you. great star for the bruins. >> marques: no rebounds, no rings. >> steve: and the lakers owner and the clippers general manager. your comment? >> marques: just for one year. we

had a great game against kentucky. he makes things happen, landry fields. >> a complete player, and when you talk about a complete player, that was exactly the way oklahoma state coach talked about james anderson. >> he's a tremendously gifted player, great athleticism. he can also step out and knock down a three-point shot with consistency. the thing i he like about him, when the opposition's best offensive player gets on a run, he says to the coach i want to guard him. he's said it several times during his career. it's a great two hich way match-up of two of the best ball forwards in the country, james anderson and landry fields. >> it will be a great basketball game tonight. we have two teams really looking to make a statement. oklahoma state 8-1, but that one loss come in the only road game. stanford played a tough game against kentucky and almost won it and lost in overtime and beat virginia. two teams on the rise looking to make a statement. >>>ed big 12 pac-10 hardwood series is presented by -- >>> and we welcom

eastern kentucky still trying to keep it close. the turks too tough. melbourne 19. turks win it 83-72. the wizards turning everything around tonight with the pace are ares. they are without the leading scorer, danny granger. we will head right out to downtown for the post game crew. get a little prove of this one. chris miller and ron thompson. guys, very tough loss for the wizards against the celtic. >> it was. they only lost by 2 but were down by as many as 17. we look at that time defense and the wizards are trialing to sell us on improving, but from the point guard position. gilbert is really struggling with the point guard. >> no question. he had to get to the point where he locks in and focuses. if you are athletic, you can be athletic and fast defensively. and what happens, it is open playing. the defense has to rotate. he has to perform appreciation an guarding ball and stay in front. >> reporter: well, the indiana pacers lost 6-4 last night. 107-91. the h & h went off. >> they went the game last night. career high, 20 points. 21 points himself. they are the

i'm sure there are people in kentucky who are for it. i have not met one.there must be a doctor in kentucky who is for this. i have not heard from one. this is an incredibly unpopular bill. this is an act of total arrogance. we just need one democratic senator to say no. no, i'm not going to do this. i know the president would like me to make history, but this is wrong for the country. just one can make a difference. >> thank you, senator. >> "the washington post" talking about aarp, said the group collected royal tease and fees last year from the sale of policies, credit cards, and other products that carry the aarp name. >> the aarp executive would naturally fall under the lincoln amendment? >> absolutely, because it says a majority that the $1.4 billion in revenues, according to the tax records, were made up of the sale of these insurance products. >> i think the senator from north carolina made an excellent point. consistency would require that aarp would be included in this amendment if the amendment goes forward. i hope the amendment doesn't pass, but

and will take care of it before christmas. >> to the republican leader, senator from kentucky, i believe there's another little bit of history being made. this bill, this process is really historic in its arrogance. this isn't very hard to understand. the proposal is, to take 16%, 70% of our economy affecting 300 million americans, nothing could be more personal as the kentucky senator has said in our health care. and we don't have the bill. we do not have the bill. it's been written in secret in another room and if there's any part of this debate that went through to every single household in america i believe it was when the finance committee voted down a motion that the bill should he on the web for 72 hours so the american people can see the text, know what it costs, and know how it affects them. a democratic senators wrote and said we want to insist that we know what the tax is, that we have the official scorer from the congressional budget office and that we have it for 72 hours before we moved to vote. now we don't have the bill, we don't have the official score from the congressi

traveling to kentucky. john wall wanted to go to unc but settled. splitting two defenders, finishing with a beautiful reverse, part of a 28-2 wildcat run. second half, cats up five, bled so gets the easy layup and kentucky is a winner by two. blake forest taking on a winner. wake forest up by seven. wake takes the nine point lead. gonzaga down three. and steven ray, fouled, will go to the line for three. made the first one. here's the second one. oh, no good. gone zag gas, goes down, wake forest the winner, 77-75. nc taking on marquette, leading by six, haywood taking on the baseline. throwing one up. the alley-oop jam, mark ket's 29 game non-conference winning streak at home. stay tuned for a full 30 minutes of action and nfl highlights join me for "final score," we roll tonight right here after the villanova-maryland game. until then enjoy the second half of miami and boston college. do you trust your coworkers, yes, you do, so just let go. [ groan ] okay, what did we learn there? is there such a thing as personal space, no, there isn't, because w

for what purpose does the gentleman from kentucky rise? mr. yarmuth: request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized for one minute. mr. yarmuth: madam speaker, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, our republican friends persist in saying bah-humbug whenever you talk about the stimulus effect. in fact my constituents, senator mitch mcconnell, yesterday on the senate floor called the recovery act a failure. obviously he's been too busy obstructing the work of the congress to go home and see what's happening in his own community because he ought to tell the people g.e.'s appliance park is failure where 400 new jobs are coming back from china because of stimulus money or the hundreds of people who are now working on renovating our interstate system, $30 million worth of work courtesy of the american recovery act. or the 80 people who will be employed at the new maintenance center or 150 teachers who are still in the classrooms in jefferson coun

kentucky, let me give you an example for kentucky. we have a couple of senators from kentucky here on the republican side. the rate bands in the small group market in kentucky are as high as 25-1. i guess that's okay with them, because they don't want this bill. in utah, the rate bans in the small group market can be as high as 34-1. i guess that's okay with them. as i said, the 3-1 is too high, but boy is it a vast improvement over current law. now, some of our friends have said we should kill this bill because the exchanges aren't strong enough. well, mr. president, i have been working on the exchanges with about 70 different groups in america ranging from seniors representatives, union representatives, small business, other representatives, all of whom are concerned about the exchanges being strong, and i'm pleased to say that those who claim the exchanges in this senate bill aren't strong enough just haven't read the bill. you don't have to get past the first 200 pages of this bill to see how the exchanges have been strengthened.

i live in a travel trailer in kentucky on top of a mountain.ave to leave it there. sorry about that. guest: dave, i just have to say, thank you for your service, and we wish you the best with your care. i am confident that the the able to the best -- the va will do the best it can to give you the care that you need and can work directly with you on your personal medical issues. host: we have this e-mail from peg conroy. guest: again, that is a great question. this is a tough area here, and one of the things for ourselves, particularly wounded and injured soldiers, the decision they make on where to live. if they choose to live in remote or rural area, that will make the care more complicated and difficult. i really appreciate the comment about women. there is far more women serving and the military in far more dangerous roles than past wars. the va in particular has stepped up quite a bit with women's clinics and things like that. i cannot speak for what is available in the state of maine, but there are things that are available. they have mobi

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. yarmuth: i thank the gentleman from tennessee. mr. speaker, in lieu -- louisville we are proud of many of the great things residents have achieved. from muhammad ali's success to diane sawyer's groundbreaking work in journalism. there's evidence of their legacies throughout our community. it's in the stories we tell, it's in the history embeded in our neighborhoods, and it's seen on the banners hung in their honor throughout town. we are proud that our city has been home to people who have changed the world in the realms of athletics, literature, art, music, business, and in the case of the man we are celebrating today, law. louis d. bran sighs was born in louisville, kentucky, in 1856. the son of immigrants. it was to louisville he would return throughout his life. it was the cradle of a burgeoning immigrant communities of 19th century louisville that brandeis began his distinguished career. he excelled first in louisville's male high school and then harvard law before beginning a su

- kentucky grilled chicken. all that great kfc taste for 395 calories? - and for $3.95? how do they do it? think watching your calories can't be delicious? - it's time to unthink. - two pieces. - green beans. - mashed potatoes. - and gravy. - i love gravy. all for 395 calories and just $3.95. colonel, i like your number. unthink. and taste the under 400-calorie side of kfc. >> hi. coming up at the halftime report number 14 u-conn facing harvard. you might be surprised at the result of that one. highlights at the half. now we send it back out to westwood and ucla taking on kansas. >> steve: we're back with you at pauley pavilion where the number one kansas jayhawks look like a number one team, kansas going for their sixth straight big 12 title. they've gt a couple great players in sherron collins, cole aldrich. when they said they were coming back just two weeks after the ncaa tournament many critics said at that time kansas will be number one and they were. >> marques: and throw in all the other athletic types that they bring in. we talked xavier henry, marcus, markieff.

lexington, kentucky, you support the bill? caller: i have to be honest.m a supporter of the public option. i have to commit that i was disappointed to see it not part of this bill. also, the medicare by in for ages 55-64, i thought one of those was sorely needed. however, i have had time to look at this bill and think. no bill, no piece of legislation is perfect. this is a start for i hope and pray is something good for the american people it will have to be revisited. it will require a lot of work to get this where it needs to be. for those who do not support the bill, i hope they can be more mindful of the millions of americans out here who are suffering today without health coverage, not knowing what will happen to them. we need to think about our elderly, our children, our working poor, and people who are working hard to do the best they can to support their families. it is not their fault that they are facing the health crisis that they are. we need to be more compassionate as a nation and we need to pull together as a people and take care of our own

vulcan also. $250,000 for the monroe county fiscal court for the monroe county farmers market in kentucky $750,000 for the design and fabrication of exhibits to be placed in the world food prize hall of laureates in iowa. $500,000 to support the creation of a center to honor the contribution of senator culver, an iowa state senator at the simpson college in iowa. $400,000 to recruit and train closed-captioners and court reporters at the a.i.b. college of business in iowa. $250,000 for renovating the murphy theater community center in ohio. now, my friends, there is a lot more, and i will just go through them briefly, but the point is -- the point is you'll notice two things. one, that the preponderance of these pork-barrel and earmark projects are -- are allocated to members of the appropriations committee, which, first of all, is fundamentally unfair. second of all, you will find that each are designated to a certain place to make sure that none of that money isn't spent somewhere else in america where the need may be greater. and third of all, it breeds corruption. it breeds corruption.

. >>> he won the kentucky derby by the largest margin in 60 years.preakness, all eyes were on barbaro as he tried to move one step closer to the triple crown. but fans were shocked as the horse pulled up shortly after the race began. the colt had suffered a freak accident, breaking several bones in his right rear leg. his career was over and barbaro's injuries led to near complications that ultimately proved fatal. >>> nancy kerrigan was america's best skater heading into the 1994 winter olympics, until a vicious attack. >> why? why? >> we have more now on a breaking story. figure skating champion nancy kerrigan was attacked. >> i'm pretty upset and angry that someone would do this. i really want to skate today, but the doctors all said i shouldn't. >> why? i worked really, really hard. >> i a major twist to the story was learned when it came to light friends of tonya harding were involved in the attack. but it didn't come to light in time before she captured the silver medal. >> over 700 million people around the world watched the 2006 world cup fin

- kentucky grilled chicken. all that great kfc taste for 395 calories? - and for $3.95? - how do they do it? think watching your calories can't be delicious? - it's time to unthink. - two pieces. - green beans. - mashed potatoes. - and gravy. - i love gravy. all for 395 calories and just $3.95. colonel, i like your number. unthink. and taste the under 400-calorie side of kfc. >> tim: rhode island lead by ten. there was preston murphy, we were speaking of, a part of that '98 team that made it to the elite eight. they beat valparaiso. remember brice drew, they were a 13th seed. they played in a magnificent regional semifinal and then arthur lee took over down the stretch and had a couple steals. >> mike: got a chance to reconnect with homer back when valpo played at north carolina. his son, of course, made his way through charlotte when i was a broadcaster there. >> tim: rhode island was a nice seed that year and very nearly made it all the way to the final four. valpo was 13th. that was an incredible story. we were reminiscing about al maguire,ing with me. he loved murphy

now, the senator from kentucky said, if there is somebody in kentucky that's for this bill, he hasn't met them. i have met some people in utah who are for this bill. they have spoken to me about it as i pass through airports or i walk down the street in the hearing of other people from utah. and as soon as anybody hears someone tell me to vote for this bill, there is a coreous -- chor ous of voices that say, don't listen to him -- listen to us. this is a terrible bill. i have been proud to point out in utah studies show we have the best health care in the united states and if everyone got their health care there it would not only be the best, it would be one-third cheaper than the national average. i have spent a lot of time talking with people that provide that result. unanimously, they tell me, this bill would damage that result. it would damage the quality and change the result. why would we want to change that process? >> this bill is going to hurt the future of care, it is going to hurt medicine in america. you cannot take $464 billion away from medicare, a program that the senio

i wonder if the senator from kentucky or the senator from arizona might have been here there.so we're very capable of making historic mistakes. and, as the senator from arizona has said very well, most americans if presented with a problem wouldn't try to turn the whole world upside down to solve the problem. they would say: what's the issue here? and the issue here is reducing costs. we all can talk to family members and others. we -- we know what they're paying monthly for premiums. we would like those premiums to be less. and we would like for government's cost to be less. why don't we after we propose day after day, as the senator from arizona just said, why don't we go step by step in the direction of reducing costs, and i won't go into the long litany of proposals that we made, take five or six steps in that direction, small business health plans, reducing junk lawsuits, buying insurance across statelines, we should be able to agree on that instead of a 2,000-page bill that raises premiums, raises taxes. seems to have a problem a day. so i think the -- the cohesion on th

kentucky and north carolina did battle.coming out on top. >> mike: good jail for john wall and great win for bawake forest after losing to mary. that was a nice road win. >> ron: other scores from yesterday. marquette had north carolina state by four and georgia tech, they have a pretty good team. 26 point win over usc. >> ron: derrick favor, double-double. number 18, clemson beat south carolina 72-61, that game came on the air before our game and florida state, a winner also today. and to jenn. >> jenn: this guy has seen a lot of basketball. the associate commissioner for basketball operations, carl hicks, thanks for joining us, tell us about your week and where you've been. >> this was a big week for the acc and big ten and the supervisor officials and i divide the games up. i was out in indiana nor the maryland, indiana game and next day went to wisconsin for the duke wisconsin game and flew back to the 0 office to take care of things then to the championship game in tampa and conference opener in boston a. busy week. >>

caller: in kentucky, we do have a program called kentucky access. it does allow me to have $15 co- payments, and if i take 30 medicines a day -- host: out-of-pocket is how much? caller: $15 on each prescription. they add up really quickly. host: you take 30 a day? caller: i take 30 a day. host: have to stop you there because with others weighing in, but i appreciate your time and merry christmas. mike, also from kentucky, democrats line. caller: good morning. on the hall -- on how the process worked, i tried to watch most of the debate the last 20 days or so. it seems like the democrats, any time they are talking about health care they are talking about people and any time the republicans are talking about health care they talk about cost. but now i am 60 years old, disabled for about 12 years. when i worked -- my wife never worked. last year she had a heart attacks and either one of us -- i of one medicare but she could not get any health insurance. the end up going to dr. and you can't tell the doctor the truth because he orders to many test and r

the minority leader from kentucky said we need to start over. we've been starting over on health care for decades, and we've never reached the finish line, because there are always obstacles in our path. right now the obstacle in our path is just bringing this matter to a vote. why were we in session at 1:00 a.m. this morning casting a vote? because the republican side of the aisle has determined that regardless of the issue, they are going to stop us from bringing this matter to a debate and a vote. they don't want us to have a vote on this. they don't want us to make a decision. they don't want to be on the record. and that's unfortunate. the bill that they've chosen now to filibuster, the one that is actually before us in the senate, is a bill that should have no controversy whatsoever. it's a bill to fund our troops. it's the department of defense appropriations bill. and can you imagine in the midst of a war when the bravest men and women in our nation are risking their lives at war, the republicans are filibustering the bill to pay their s

the senior senator from kentucky, the republican leader, said that. and yet, mr. president, not a single one of these republican senators -- not a single one of the 40 republicans in this body, have committed to renewing our commitment to our troops before the funding expires later today. we're voting at this rare, late hour but not even the darkness outside can conceal the game being played inside this senate chamber. we're here in the middle of the night, but the reason is as clear as day: senate republicans so desperately want to turn their backs on americans who are suffering and dying for want of decent health care -- 45,000 a year, 7350,000 bankruptcies, 140,000 losing their insurance every day -- that they're turning their backs on america's troops at wartime. rarely has the senate seen such a sad statement. rarely have i seen such brazen irresponsibility and rarely have our nation's citizens received such little regard from their leaders. mr. president, our sons and daughters are fighting tonight and every night in the deserts of iraq, in the bitter cold m

for what purpose does the gentleman from kentucky rise? mr. yarmuth: i ask permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized for one minute. mr. yarmuth: madam speaker, i rise today to pay tribute to jackie haste, a broadcasting legend in louisville, kentucky, who has served our community for nearly 22 years. jackie will retire this friday and will be greatly missed. over the -- her career, she has done it all, covering more than 25 kentucky --ies and joining louisvillians for our greatest and darkest tragedies. we always knew how much she cared about us. that's why she was selected 16 times as louisville's favorite female anchor. she proved her love for our communities community, not by her onair professionalism but her charitable and civic activities. she said, god is not going to ask me one day how many newscasts i did or how many stories i broke but what kind of person i am. as her career at wave 3 will come to an end, i can say she is a person

parallel, i've done this this year alone from wisconsin to both north dakota for the floods and kentuckyor the ice storm. i give tactical control of those guardsmen who in fact become state assets for the states to which we deploy them. and i certainly reserve the right or the governor reserves the right to recall them if need. but i think from the unity of command, unity of effort point of view, the best thing to do, unless and until the federal government needs to take command, for the emergency being so drastic, so severe, in which case we would all get behind the president, i think the best thing is to stick with both state and federal guidance which is lowest level up. and from that perspective, we wouldn't be talking -- probably wouldn't be talking to lots of federal intrusion. probably talking about a company of engineer or a small capability could easily fit into our joint force headquarters, in our case in wisconsin or in other states headquarters. we would then provide those forces to the state coordinating officer, which is lined up perfectly under the stafford act. >> i'm goi

the minority leader from kentucky said we need to start over. we've been starting over on health care for decades and we've never reached the finish line because there are always obstacles in our path. right now the obstacle in our path is just bringing this matter to a vote. why were we in session at 1 a.m. this morning casting a vote? because the republican side of the aisle has determined that regardless of the issue they are going to stop us from bringing this matter to debate and vote. they don't want us to have a vote on this. they don't want us to make a decision. they don't want to be on the record and that is unfortunate. the bill that the have chosen, not a filibuster, the one that is actually before us in the senate is a bill that should have no controversy whatsoever. it is a bill to fund our troops, the department of defense appropriations bill and can you imagine in the midst of the war when the bravest men and women in the nation are risking their lives at war the republicans are filibustering the bill to pay their salaries? the b

- kentucky grilled chicken. all that great kfc taste for 395 calories? - and for $3.95? - how do they do it? think watching your calories can't be delicious? - it's time to unthink. - two pieces. - green beans. - mashed potatoes. - and gravy. - i love gravy. all for 395 calories and just $3.95. colonel, i like your number. unthink. and taste the under 400-calorie side of kfc. a flavorf wht be. itasery nicepice note. it hasittle lemon zest itanorbring ice nicepice note. caed gras padis, lemony m adams summ ale it just totallremis you of smer, yeah. jarvis. >> steve: welcome back to anaheim for the game between mississippi state and ucla. augustus and varnado are the two bigs. bost a very underrated point guard and their coach, rick stansbury, all-time winningest coach in mississippi state history averaging over 20 wins in 9 of his 11 seasons. then, of course, ucla, they go with the two bigs in nelson around dragovic and roll, lee and anderson, they will need a supreme game from anderson who has struggled at times for ben howland at the point and here's coach howland and h

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. puerto rico even, 400,991. rhode island, 65,108. south carolina, 110,949. these are senior citizens. south dakota, 8,973. tennessee, 233,024. texas, 532,242. my own state of utah, 85,588. vermont, only 3,966, but 3,000 people -- 4,000 people in vermont. virginia, 151,942. washington, 225,918. west virginia, 88,027. wisconsin, 243,443, and wyoming, 3,942. these are people who benefit from medicare advantage that would not like to get off of it. well, this choice in cover

john wall of kentucky is an exciting, entertaining and explosive scorer. he uses the dribble to get virtually anywhere he wants on the floor. he has tremendous feel for the game, he is at his best when he's taking the ball to the basket. high powered kansas offense and this is henry's skills set perfectly. he's an athletic slasher. he complements the skills of the veterans on this team, sharon collins and aldridge. he's a great free throw shooter. they have their sights set on a national championship run. since the departure of high scoring knick calasis to professional ball in europe, coach billy donovan found himself in dire need of a scoring guard. enter 6'3" kenny boynton. in the early going, boynton's quickness, length and hustle has been very, very effective in the gators' pressing defense and their fast paced offense of attack. it's to the hoop. the fact that he's known for his defensive status and tenacity separates avery bradley of texas from most first year players. on a longhorn team whose expectations are very high, my guess is bradley's role w

i live in a travel trailer in kentucky on top of a mountain. host: dave, we're going to have to leave it there. sorry about that. guest: dave, i just have to say, thank you for your service, and we wish you the best with your care. i am confident that the the able to the best -- the va will do the best it can to give you the care that you need and can work directly with you on your personal medical issues. host: we have this e-mail from peg conroy. guest: again, that is a great question. this is a tough area here, and one of the things for ourselves, particularly wounded and injured soldiers, the decision they make on where to live. if they choose to live in remote or rural area, that will make the care more complicated and difficult. i really appreciate the comment about women. there is far more women serving and the military in far more dangerous roles than past wars. the va in particular has stepped up quite a bit with women's clinics and things like that. i cannot speak for what is available in the state of maine, but there are things that

nothing could be more personal, as the kentucky senator has said, than our health care. and we don't have the bill. we do not have the bill. it's being written in secret in another room. and if there's any part of this debate that went through to every single household in america, i believe it was when the finance committee voted down the motion, the democrats voted down a motion that the bill should be on the web for 72 hours so the american people could see the text, know what it costs and know how it affects them. eight democratic senators then wrote the democratic leader and said we want to insist that we know what the text is, that we have the official score from the congressional budget office, and that we have it for 72 hours before we move to vote. now, we don't have the bill. we don't have the official score from the congressional budget office. 72 hours is three more days. even though eight democratic senators and all the republican senators said we want to know what it costs, know what it is and know how it affects us, they want to run it through before christ

the taxpayers of kentucky are not excited about having to underwrite the special deals that were apparently made in nebraska, vt., and maybe massachusetts. i will remind the taxpayers of my state that they are subsidizing these other three states because their senators have extracted a price for passing this bill. this is just another good reason why a bill like this should not be done on a narrowly partisan basis. when you decide to do something and you have 60 votes, you are open for business and creates the kind of silly proposition that we have seen on full display. it empowers every single one of those 60 to extract some special deal for them at the expense of everybody else in the country. after all, this is supposed to be all of our but health-care. with that, let me call on senator kyl. >> i was born in the state of nebraska. a lot of nebraska's have moved to-state of arizona. they're great people. they're very principled people. when they told ben nelson that they did not like this bill, they hoped that he would work to correct the flaws in the bill. instead, what we find after rea

after five years she went to work in philadelphia but in 1988 she returned to kentucky and the rivercity where she stayed ever since. for the last 21 years since returning to louisville, jackie has been with way-3 news. she is the anchor of that channel's 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. newscast. after 33 years in broadcasting, jackie earned a well-deserved rest and she's looking forward to spending time with her husband paul, their daughters and their dogs. jackie and paul are avid horse riders and i hear they just got a new horse named chipper. but jackie will be greatly missed by the people of louisville and the surrounding area. every day through the television, viewers have welcomed her into their homes. now we should stop and recognize that we welcome her into our community and our lives as well. so i just wanted to take this moment to thank her for her incredible career on behalf of kentuckians everywhere. mr. president, i yield the floor. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate will resume consideration of h.r. 3590 which the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar numb

he talks about growing up in alaska and being sent to kentucky for high school.ost: what does the title mean? caller: he dropped 50 miles from the international dateline the separates alaska and russia. by any readers of sarah palin "going rogue," i invite him to read this book. host: thank you. 2009 was the 20th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. here is a book that is called " tear down this wall." clorox. was a report of the year? -- little rock. caller: the book was reissued in paperback. host: that is ok. caller: "professor and the madman" by simon winchester. the thing i got from it was a tremendous amount of work and time, people who put together all these words and a half to keep doing it all the time. host: and we did cover that. you could go to our web site and take a search for that. good morning to david in tulsa, oklahoma. caller: "a fiery pieeace i an a cold war." i found it in lightning. it brought many things about the cold war that i was not aware of. it updated the cold war. i just learned a great deal from the book. neil sheehan brough

caller: in kentucky, we have a ñrprogram called kentucky acces.maie to have $15 copayment. host: your out-of-pocket expenses are how much? caller: $15 on each prescription. those bills add up really quickly. and i take 30 a day. host: we appreciate your time sharing your story and we wish you a merry christmas. we will go to mike, also from kentucky, on the democratic line. caller: i don't know how the process worked. i have been watching c-span -- tried to watch most of the debate for the last four days. it seems like the democrats, any time that they are talking about health care, they are talking about people. any time the republicans are talking about health care, they are talking about what it cost. but i am 60 years old and disabled for about 12 years. when i worked, my wife never worked. last year, she had a hard time. neither one of us -- i'm on medicare but now she can i get any health insurance. you end up going to the doctor, and you cannot tell the doctor the truth, because the order so many tests, and write so many prescriptions for h

host: our next guest is leonard from kentucky. go ahead. caller: merry christmas. when you are the parents of a soldier stationed in bahrain and are not able to contact them do to unusual circumstances, what can a veteran of vietnam do to contact his son? guest: this is a horrifying reality for parents and families of loved ones. we spoke earlier of the list of u.s. bases around the world. some bases are not even included in the list. cochrane, for instance. only one in bahrain, and none in saudi arabia are listed because of political considerations of the government of the countries who do not want to acknowledge u.s. bases there. it may be that organizations like military families speak out, an important organization of families and friends of active duty soldiers that are trying to end the war, to stop the soldiers from being at risk and to take care of them when they come home. they may have some ideas. you can reach them on their website. i wish i had a better recommendation for you. perhaps your member of congress would be willing to try. sometimes it is spec

the only senator who did not vote was kentucky republican jim bunning. nebraskas and a democrat ben nelson was the last senator to vote yes on the bill. he spoke following the vote. remarks that the majority leader made about all of the people that work at the capitol during the difficult an intense time. we thank you very much for your outstanding service. it's early and i'll be brief. the most obvious problem with the bill before us is it doesn't do what it was supposed to do. the one test for any bill was whether it would lower costs. this bill fails that test. it's also clear that even many of the people on this side who are going to support this bill don't like it. otherwise, the democratic leaders wouldn't have had such a tough time rounding up the votes. otherwise, democratic leaders would not have had to have votes in the middle of the night or at crack of dawn or over the weekend or even during a blizzard. otherwise, they wouldn't be rushing it through congress on christmas eve. the first time this body has had a vote on the day before christmas

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president -- >> that was senator mitch mcconnell from kentucky. he's the minority leader now. let's listen to the majority leader, senator harry reid from nevada. >> more and more americans have come down with the flu, or even developed diabetes, suffered a stroke more and more americans who have a skin condition are dying rather than being cared. and much more of our attention has consumed this health care debate and the national study than by harvard university found that 4500 times this year more than 120 times per day, an average of 10 every ten minutes, an american died as a result the numbers are numbing. they don't even include those that have had health insurance but died because they couldn't afford a plan that met their most basic needs. they are the only place that they are dying for lack of possible. to make matters worst, we are paying for that privilege. so do numbers that can't afford. medical bills are the leading cause of bankruptcy in america. we have before us the ability to provide quality health care to every american and we have the ability to treat our u

host: next call is from kentucky, co-head. caller: -- from kentucky, go ahead.ler: i think there's a great possibility in the near future of taking your people's gold, by the government. and never to come on -- and number two, there looked to be serious research works [unintelligible] the altered the skull x-rays of president kennedy. host: the "washington times" announced this week that it was cutting its staff 40% and shifting to freda's to region. -- to free distribution. next phone caller is from washington d.c., and na, the democrats line. -- anna, democrats line. caller: i would like to commend ron paul. i think he is one of the few in our congress that is actually an honest, decent man. he really wants what is best for this country. i think that we, the american citizens, need to stand up and start running for office so that we can get the corrupt politicians out and so that we can't affect change. we need more people like ron paul to step up to the plate. -- and so that we can affect change. we need more people like rabon to step up to the plate. i was a

john wall at kentucky averaging 18. and john calipai.erek favors at georgia tech with 13 points per game. >> daymeon: and you talked about the acc derek favors and in the sec john wall right now a couple of guys predicted to come out one and two in the nba draft this year. >> matt: halftime here at auburn university where the tigers trail the virginia cavaliers by a bucket at the half. welcome home, man. >> matt: back at the beard-eaves coliseum where virginia leads auburn, 34-32 and sylven landesberg started out at the story. at halftime he is the story. averaging 16.6 points per game. 10th in the acc. he has 17 already. looks to drive to the hoop as landesberg has been almost unstoppable. a great spin move right there and even when they put defense on him he still gets it. 17 points for landesberg on 8-13 from the floor here in the first 20 minutes. as a result, virginia with the two-point lead here at the break. boss: y'know, geico opened its doors back in 1936 and now we're insuring over 18 million drivers. gecko: quite impressive, y

what a great job by kentucky and north carolina yesterday.s too much for north carolina to overcome. had to get an iv in the first half and the best player missing part of the second half but able to hold on. mark eth aand north carolina state. able to hold on. >> today, clemson takes care of south carolina a lot of you saw that ballgame by 11. ray grant having a double-double 12 points, 11 rebounds, they won that game with trevor booker only scoring seven points. a good sign for the tigers. boston college, we'll have the basketball at their own hoop. looking for raj cutting inside, jackson comes up with it. nice pass inside, raj with the pass! use the word crafty with him. at 6'6", knows how to get the shot off and create space for himself. 29 points rebatound coming off effort against michigan. one thing about him he will play a ton of minutes. malcolm dropping down his 20th three-pointer, shooting 20% this year. it's a key thing in this offense. a look inside raji makes a nice cutoff and finds himself wide open. >> mike: and he makes subst

nothing could be more personal, as the kentucky senator has said, than our health care. and we don't have the bill. we do not have the bill. it's being written in secret in another room. and if there's any part of this debate that went through to every single household in america, i believe it was when the finance committee voted down the motion, the democrats voted down a motion that the bill should be on the web for 72 hours so the american people could see the text, know what it costs and know how it affects them. eight democratic senators then wrote the democratic leader and said we want to insist that we know what the text is, that we have the official score from the congressional budget office, and that we have it for 72 hours before we move to vote. now, we don't have the bill. we don't have the official score from the congressional budget office. 72 hours is three more days. even though eight democratic senators and all the republican senators said we want to know what it costs, know what it is and know how it affects us, they want to run it through before christ

the only senator who did not vote was the kentucky senator. despite the holiday, negotiators will begin working by phone at next week on a compromise between the house and senate version of the health-care overhaul. >> christmas day, a look ahead at 2010 politics, including republican congressman and nbc david gregory. buzz aldrin and fellow astronauts on the legacy of apollo levin, a discussion of the role of muslims in america and the world. later, a former c.i.a. intelligence officer on u.s. strategy against al qaeda in afghanistan. starting at 8:00, remembering the lives of william f. buckley jr. and senator ted kennedy. >> this christmas holiday, we have three days of the tv on c- span2. beginning friday morning at 8:00, books on history, politics, and public affairs. you'll see sarah palin on her recent book to work and you'll hear about a biography on supreme court justice scalia. tracy kidder from the miami book festival is also included. you can get a full schedule at booktv.org. >> an event now with former congressional staffer and s

vulcan also. $250,000 for the monroe county fiscal court for the monroe county farmers market in kentucky. $750,000 for the design and fabrication of exhibits to be placed in the world food prize hall of laureates in iowa. $500,000 to support the creation of a center to honor the contribution of senator culver, an iowa state senator at the simpson college in iowa. $400,000 to recruit and train closed-captioners and court reporters at the a.i.b. college of business in iowa. $250,000 for renovating the murphy theater community center in ohio. now, my friends, there is a lot more, and i will just go through them briefly, but the point is -- the point is you'll notice two things. one, that the preponderance of these pork-barrel and earmark projects are -- are allocated to members of the appropriations committee, which, first of all, is fundamentally unfair. second of all, you will find that each are designated to a certain place to make sure that none of that money isn't spent somewhere else in america where the need may be greater. and third of all, it breeds corruption. it breeds corruption

cohen, he will be here because he, too, is a kentucky colonel. i'll yield to the gentleman. >> i wanted to ask mr. hildebrand in the normal bankruptcy, if you have a yacht , and it's upside down and you owe more than the value of the yacht, what happens? >> the implication in the question is can bankruptcy judges, can a bankruptcy plan structure and recognize the economic reality that you mentioned in your opening remarks that the collateral is the extent of the secured claim, whether it's a yacht or a piece of business equipment or whether it's an airplane for united airlines or whether it's the plans for general motors. braptsi judges are entrusted with the ability to make these valuations and determine them for everything except the home mortgage. >> on the yacht, you could reaffirm the debt, but you would only have to reaffirm the debt up to the value of the yacht, is that right? >> if i could distinguish reaffirmation would contain a voluntary consent on both sides. on a chapter 11, 12 or 13 plan, it is the value that you provide. as long as

the only senator who did not vote was the kentucky senator. despite the holiday, negotiators will begin working by phone at next week on a compromise between the house and senate version of the health-care overhaul. >> christmas day, a look ahead at 2010 politics, including republican congressman and nbc david gregory. buzz aldrin and fellow astronauts on the legacy of apollo levin, a discussion of the role of muslims in america and the world. later, a former c.i.a. intelligence officer on u.s. strategy against al qaeda in afghanistan. starting at 8:00, remembering the lives of william f. buckley jr. and senator ted kennedy. >> this christmas holiday, we have three days of the tv on c- span2. beginning friday morning at 8:00, books on history, politics, and public affairs. you'll see sarah palin on her recent book to work and you'll hear about a biography on supreme court justice scalia. tracy kidder from the miami book festival is also included. you can get a full schedule at booktv.org. >> an event now with former congressional staffer and s

kentucky, indiana, texas, nebraska. there's a fifth -- and california. thank you. so these are terrific guys. so we have 200 people working in agriculture. agriculture -- we were spending less money on agriculture than we were on poppy crop eradication. in the last few years. we ended eradicating poppy crops. we were just driving farmers into the hands of the taliban. and we're building agriculture. otto and beth are headed back out there at the beginning of january to work on building up an agricultural credit bank. this was a great agricultural country. it exported raisins and pomegranates and saffron and pistachio nuts and wine from the plain and that all ended in '78 and we were ignoring agriculture. and if you get an agricultural economy revitalized you're going to start to withdraw the incentive, the attractiveness of the taliban to some of these unemployed youths. so we're going to revitalize agriculture. the congress has backed us fully on this. and in this effort, we're not working directly with president karzai, michael. he support it is. we're working wi

it is like kentucky with horse farms and bourbon. post all right. jim, maplewood. -- host: all right. jim, maplewood. caller: i am a republican. i do not understand why the rest of the americans have turned against this war. host: anything else? caller: i wonder why we think that war is easy. why accomplishing anything good is easy. the world needs to be changed. we cannot leave an enemy festering like an open sore. war is hell, it sure is. what are we going to do? build a big wall around america and tell anyone not to hurt us again? asking please? host: "the wall street journal" has a suggestion for paying for the war -- a 5% increase in the gas tax would cover most or all of the war's cost and leave gas prices short of the 2008 levels. while most proponents of a higher gasoline tax want to use the money for higher infrastructure, congress could take the funding over once the war winds down. we do not expect a rush to embrace this idea. so far proponents of paying for the war in afghanistan heavily overloaded with those who want to end it. but if m