there are the t shirts with the notorious rbg meme. some of them also say i love rbg. my personal favorite is you can't spell truth without ruth. [ applause ] and then there are even the young women who have tattoos of your likeness. now, that's love. that's real. all of this i think is unusual for a supreme court justice. justice scalia gets out, too, but i don't think anyone has a justice scalia tattoo. not even at the federalist society. i want to start by asking you how did this happen? >> it's amazing. to think of me an icon at 82. i attribute it all to an nyu law student who started the notorious rbg. at first i didn't know what to make of this because i didn't who notorious b.i.g. was. and then my law clerks explained you two have something in common. you were both born in brooklyn, new york. i should explain right away criticism. a number of my family and friends have raised. ginsberg comes before scalia alphabetically so why is it scalia-ginsberg. and to answer you know how important seniority is in our work place. so -- >> i'm getting a sense of that. >> so s

there are the t-shirts with the notorious rbg name. some of them also say i love rbg and my personal favorite which is you can't spell truth without ruth. [ cheers and applause ] >> and then there are even the young women who have tattoos of your likeness. >> now that's love. that's real. all of those, i think, is pretty unusual for a supreme court justice. justice scalia gets out a lot, too, but i don't think there's anyone with a justice scalia tattoo, not even at the federalist society. so -- [ laughter ] >> i guess i just want to start by asking you, how did this happen? >> it's amazing. to think of me an icon at 82? i attribute it to an nyu law student who started a tumblr, the notorious rbg. at first, i didn't know quite what to make of this because i didn't know who notorious b.i.g. was. [ applause ] and then my law clerks explained to me when you two have something in common, we were both born and bred in brooklyn, new york. [ cheers and applause ] scalia ginsburg, the opera, i should explain right away a criticism a number of

>> for something a little more fun is notorious rbg. yes, the ruth bader ginsburg. that are out from the internet were young women in particular really feel that ruth bader ginsburg who of course is a justice on the supreme court, the really admire your helicopter. they feel she's a feminist role model and so there was this meme go around for pictures we go all over the internet with various settings, what happens with me meme. and they turn this into a book for i believe justice ginsburg knows about it and she preps maybe not approved by the but at least understands it and likes that it is out there. >> and your final? >> the third, i would like to talk about -- that's a good question that actually there several wanted to talk about. i know among other things we will be having a memoir from dick van dyke, the actor, his 90th are these in december. a couple of months before they be publishing a book called keep moving this is essentially how to live your life along the lines of dick van dyke. there's also a book by -- on the geography of genius. that will not be out

sure they didn't spend another 20 to 30 minutes putting in information after organic, how are you rbgsa'am and how do you feel. i had to call in on some of these invoices and the double trouble is when you do an appeal the people that are answering for medicare read from a script and you can't get them to answer anything specific because the lawyers have taken over and tkpwo forbid they should say -- god forbid they should say the wrong thing. then you get a letter back from a contractor like novitas or we have first choice in jacksonville and they don't give you any specifics. for instance my mother -- this is the question. she almost had a stroke in the emergency room and had a cat scan done and they came back and said it was a routine examination so i had to appeal that and when i appealed it i talked to the people at medicare and we don't have the correct code number. don't worry, we will send off to the provider sofor the correct information. i get the her -- i get the her become and it is a routine exam. why do they read from a script? we are subsidizeing medicine and when you su

the clerk: s. 15 23-rbgs a bill to amend the federal water pollution control act to reauthorize the national estuary program and for other purposes. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. senate will proceed to the measure. mr. whitehouse: i further ask that the whitehouse amendment which is at the desk be agreed to the bill as amended be read a third time and passed, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table, with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. whitehouse: may i thank the senator from ohio for the way we have worked together on this. there was a slight toll to be paid on the majority side for getting the national estuary program passed. but it was one that we could live with. and i think that these are both good pieces of legislation. i'm glad that we were able to pass them together. if i could just briefly read from an editorial that was recently published by the "westerly sun." it is one of rhode island's cities. and they have south county, the a