where they announced the closure in dayton and masselin, we're working to keep both open. it's a challenge. but the closing of those hospitals i hope isn't a harbinger of what is to come. because of the attack on the health care market and the laws over the last year. but that's why we need serious long-term negotiations here. the other issue that's so important, mr. president, is pensions. the preside -- in the presiding officer's home state of indiana and my state of ohio and pennsylvania, north dakota and missouri and michigan and wisconsin and minnesota, there are hundreds -- literally hundreds of thousands of teamsters and coal miners and iron workers and carpenters and confectionry workers, even though they paid into a pension for 30 years, even they they gave up dollars today at the bargaining table so they could put dollars aside for the future often matched by their employer, because of wall street greed and wall street malfeasance and misfeasance in part, these pensions, they're going to face huge cuts. the presiding officer senator young and i and senator donnel