we were close to our new york sandbergs, so new york when they came, -- very much like home to me. it wasn't a surprise. you know, i got tired -- i was raised in cambridge and i was given liberty by any doctor father to write scholarly history and i went to teach at oxford and there was a sense you were tied to an immemorial curriculum. never mind what you wanted to team. i was interested in crack pot things to do with cleanliness, feats tissues and strange and wacky things, and i remember standing up and proposing that the history on the history of the family, for example, and it was as though -- i remember being met with looks of rummy-eyed disbelief as though i uttered some unspeakable profanity. and then the next day i tried to kilnle the enthusiasm of one of any undergraduates in something very marginal, say the russian revolution, and i was meant with twinkle, which reminded me very much of what cousin gentleman's jasper says, treat the dawns like the village parseon and you won't be wrong. i wanted to sort of wipe the smile off their country gentlemen face and i wanted to be

turned around, i guess you can say it started with joe morgan and carried on to jeff kent and ryne sandberg and morgan and sandberg, of course rhall of famers, but second base has become a pretty good, an important power position. >> jim: and that is a little low. >> buck: certainly aaron hill in front is one of those run producers when you think about what he can do toffly, but add in the power and the pop he has hitting as a second baseman. >> jim: uehara steps off. the infield is looking for a ground ball to turn two. and that splitter is low and he lays off, does baker, 2-2. >> buck: now the marlins are a little more patient with uehara the second time through the order making him throw more pitches. they really swung quickly the fist time through the order and basically allowed uehara to breeze through the first nine hitters. >> jim: from 0-2 to 2-2. foul ball. >> jim: this has been the marlins' inning on the year, 44 lunes scored and that is the most and best production of any inning ton year, and it comes right in the middle of the game. 2-2. it is hit to left field. there is another

joe morgan and ryne sandberg, but over the years not that many.ht-field line, brett carroll with the long run. and right at the bullpen barrier for the second out. willie harris still looking for contact. >> rob: 377 home runs, 1518 rbi's, lifetime .290 hitter, .356 on-base percentage over 17 years. won mvp back in 2000. he was special. eight times drove in over 100 runs. >> bob: and those were the numbers, the rbi numbers that evoked comparisons to the great raja as they called him, rogers hornsby. willie harris, two swinging strikeouts tonight. later debbi taylor will tell us about some nationals minor leaguers who have garnered some honors this week. good to know when your minor league guys are the best in their leagues at what they do for a certain period of time. the top three in the order, 0 for 6 tonight. that's high strike. >> bob: now, yesterday in baltimore, jim joyce didn't call a pitch like that a strike all day. so tonight you have a different umpire who is calling the high strike. he tries to stay up there, but he's too high. the nat

judith sandberg. i have not had a conversation with her, i just know what i read. she dropped out of the medicaid program because the reimbursement rates were not sufficient to keep her doors open to provide health insurance for her own employees. so, you know, you start talking about reforming the system and covering more people, but if you are reimbursing doctors at a lower rate from what you are currently receiving, that little plastic card that says, you know, i have insurance, therefore i have access -- you do not have access if there are no doctors there, particularly primary care doctors that we want to incentivize to treat the sick but also to enhance wellness. we need more and more doctors like that, and you are paying them less and less, and the best and brightest are not going to go into medicine, and they are certainly not going into those specialties that we are most in need of. host: by the way, howard dean is out with the new book and will join us tomorrow. paul is on the phone from fort leavenworth, kansas. caller: how're you doing, congressman? i a

>> senator sandberg? >> no by proxy. >> senator casey? >> no. >> senator berkeley? >> no. >> senator whitehouse? >> no. >> senator enzi? >> aye. >> senator alexander? >> aye by proxy. >> senator byrd? >> aye by proxy. >> senator isaacson? >> aye by approximatey? >> senator mccain? >> aye by proxy. >> senator hatch? >> aye by proxy. >> senator coburn? >> aye. >> senator roberts. >> aye. >> senator kennedy? >> no by proxy. >> ten ayes. it appears to be nay. the amendment is not agreed to. here's where we are and senator coburn is leaving. i was hoping to get done by tomorrow midday, but we're going to finish, so i -- i don't want to keep people in the evenings if we can't consider amendments, but i don't know -- we have the fraud and abuse section now to go to and about -- >> there are eight people here, mr. chairman? we have eight, i know, and i think we ought to keep working at the thing. >> do it. >> i don't have amendments. do we have amendments? >> mr. chairman, i just want to thank all of the senators as we finish our first title, many across the aisle working w