the last thing is i'd really like to encourage "the apprentice" schip program. i've been reading that there's only at this point one dog-walking training program, which seems like we're kind of handing them a little bit of a monopoly at that point. so, you know, i would really urge you to get in touch with the professional dog walkers associations and try to get a program up and running that would really dot a-- do theapen trystship. that's where people really understand what's going on with their dogs. >> i appreciate that. in terms of the eight dogs, i do think that i am open to that number. and as i mentioned, the six vs. eight discussion, that's been happening for a long time. but it's definitely within that range of reason in terms of what the debate has been. so i'm not ruling that out at all. and i meant to mention before the issue of dog tech, which is the training program i think you were referring to. there is -- there was a rumor out there that dog tech had participated in drafting the legislation, which, you know, could be viewed as furthering or cre

who are covered by medicaid and the children's health insurance program, the schip program. in georgia it's called peach care. they did nothing to strengthen medicare. in fact, to pay for this new entitlement program, health insurance for all, young and healthy people, they gutted the medicare program. mr. speaker, the gentleman from louisiana has a poster before us right now, the first slide, if you will, and it -- we need, every one of us, on both sides of the aisle, to focus on that and as he points to the first bullet point, cutting $575 billion from the medicare program. and most of it, in the next bullet, is from the medicare advantage program and of the 40 million to 45 million people that are on medicare, most of them because they're 65, maybe 10 million of them because they're disabled and yumminger, but so many of them -- younger, but so many of them, mr. speaker, get their care, get their health care on the medicare program through something called medicare advantage and that's a key word. why is it advantage? because it gives them comprehensive care, it gives the