i remember that i went to mendenhall, mississippi, and gave a speech to the rotary club there and i talked about how i had worked with ted kennedy on the i.d.e.a., the program for children with disabilities, and i didn't get much response from the crowd, but when i was done, one of the old curmudgeons who sits in the back of the room at the rotary club and you all know them, and he came up to me at the time i was a congressman and he said, you did a good job and speech and did fine, but that part about kennedy, don't say that no more. so you get some flack. it was a great time and difficult time and that is why you become such great friends, because when you go through difficult times, you do grow together. and when you bleed, you bond. and personalities do change, and it is the 24/7nd i is people wh want to leave and go back home, and they leave their families back home, and tom and i did don't that. linda and tricia was here. and that helped a awful lot. i don't believe you can be a good senator or congressman if you can't work on monday. if you trying to get on the plane or deal with co

mendenhall 35 votes -- of the house, they actually got a zero. that means that of the 35 votes, they got all of them wrong. host: if you like to join the conversation and talk with gene karpinski, the numbers are on the screen. let's go to ashland, kentucky, where god is on the democrat's line. the -- doug is on the democrat's line. caller: republicans want to destroy the world we live in. we start of the epa so our children in the future will have clean water. i know a little about this. these companies do not want to clean up their pollution. republicans say it destroys jobs. it makes jobs. it makes good paying jobs, but they do not want to pay, these corporations. we need to keep our air breathable and our water fresh. host: here is a breakdown of the house and senate in kentucky. kentucky is read, that means 0- 19% in the ranking. and the house is in orange. guest: the senate minority leader, makan, savidge, is almost always in opposition to protection. -- the senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell, sadly, is almost always in opposition to p