i went keown to the senate floor to express my discontent with a process, made a wonderfulful speech.hink probably senator harkin heard it and that's why he's leaving. and i expressed my discontent with the process, the cost and substance of this bill. marvelous speech. i know that i am not alone in this sentiment as the american people it seems to me start to realize what is actually in this legislation, despite the goal so eloquently put by me colleagues to my left. and you're right. on process, my republican colleagues and i recently made very reasonable requests from the chairman and finance committees as well as senator dodd who has done a very good job in serving in senator kennedy's absence. these requests appeared in a letter, my letter, i wrote it, which every republican member of the finance add health education and labor and pension committees signed. every republican. hard to get every republican to sign anything. in that letter, we asked the chairman to release the complete details of their plans to reform health care. we asked them to do so in a timely manner to allow us