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my husband being a romantic that he is for valentine's day, gave me a complete set of world economic outlook for the league of nations. [laughter] league of nations cease to exist in world war ii. but it has incredible data going back to somewhere between 1910 and 1914. i it hand and put myself that data. not research assistance. the best way i can describe it, is not that we never knew things, it is just that we forget. we forget. memories are very short. though the give nations actually collected wonderful data on domestic debt which neither the world bank nor the imf did, so we were able to really complement our analysis and it was a wonderful source from an institution that no longer existed. luckily for us the united nations continue to update some of the data that the lake at -- league of nations once put together. it was also looking at the league of nations material that i discovered newfoundland was one of the country's. i did not know that. i always thought of it as a province of canada. it was a country. it lost its sovereignty because it was on the brink of default. talk

on valentine's day, 1884, his wife gives birth on west 57th street in new york where they're living.he dies on childbirth. she dies upon giving birth to their first child, aalice. -- alice. he goes upstairs where his mother is living and she dies on the same day. this is our most prolive genetic writer. theodore roosevelt wrote 15 books before his 40th birthday. he wrote 10,000 letters while he was president. he wrote -- he was a prolific diaryist. what does he put in his diary in 1884 he writes a big shaky x on february 14th and beneath that x is a single line. he says, the light has gone out of my life. so he gives his newborn baby to his sister to raise her. he resigns his position in the legislature and he says goodbye toe wealth and new york and he moves out west. he moves to the dakota territory and he becomes a new man, a different man. a transformed man. he sets up shop -- i was going to -- i hope there was a stage up here. but in a little cabin which i saw about 400 square feet. and he hangs his bearskin rugs up next to the fireplace and he brings all his books in by train.

we'll stay until new year's day, we'll stay until valentine's day. this is indeed an historic bill.we don't want to make an historic mistake because it affects our children, grandchildren, 17% of the economy, all 300 million americans. none of us have ever seen our constituents more involved in an issue than in this issue. so we're here ready to go to work. so i'm wondering, as i listen to the senator from arizona, not only do we not know what this bill is that we're supposed to enact by two weeks from today, our friends on the other side don't know what it is. they can't tell each other what it is. they come out of their -- they had sort of a rally yesterday. one of the senators described this as sort after "go, team, go" rally. all we've heard they're going to -- and i imagine the senator from oklahoma who is a physician, who has delivered many babies, seen many patients, still continues to do it -, woud have some comment on it. all we've heard is they may try to etion spanned medicare. and we heard yesterday from the executive director of the mayo clinic health policy center -- a

we will stay until new year's day, we will stand still valentine's day because this is an historic bill and we don't want to make a historic mistake because it affects our children, our grandchildren and 17% of the economy, all 300 million americans. none of this had ever seen their constituents more involved in an issue then in this issue, so we are here ready to go to work. so i'm wondering, as they listen to the senator from arizona not only do we not know what this bill is that we are supposed to enact by two weeks from today, our friends on the other side don't know what it is. they can't tell each other what it is. they come out of there, they have sort of a rally yesterday, one of the senators described it as the go team go rally but they didn't know what they were going to. all we have heard they are going to and i imagine the senator from oklahoma who is a physician, who has delivered many babies and see many patients and still continues to do so would have comments on it. record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. alexander: and i'll just read one sentence from it.

the people hear about it, let's come back and vote on it after christmas, after new year, after valentine's day? could he not do that and isn't that peculiarly -- particularly his power and not our power? mr. kyl: mr. president, i would say to my colleague that as a general rule, that's correct. the majority leader has two great powers that to one else in the senate has. one is the right of first recognition by the presiding officer and the other is the power to set the schedule. now, that power is limited by senate rules and it can be altered by unanimous consent. and i could go on and explain a little bit to folks who are wondering why we would be in this predicament of voting on christmas eve based upon the majority leader's decision, and if i can just proceed, then i'll do that. all of these rather odd times for debates -- 1:00 in the morning, 7:20 a.m. in the morning, and so on -- are a result of the majority leader's decision to make sure that this bill is completed by christmas. that -- that's the precipitating cause for everything else that follows. because once he says the bill has