john mccain -- this is from an article in the wawrnlings john mccain would pay for his health care plan with major reductions for medicare and medicaid, a top a.d.a. said in a move that independent analysts estimate could result in cuts of $1.3 trillion. now, after i said that on the floor, the senator from north carolina, senator burr, stood up and said, have you seen factcheck.org? and i said, i haven't read the specific article, but we didn't see that corrected in the course of the campaign. but now i've seen the article. i wanted to know what the senator from north carolina was referring to so i went and got factcheck.org. and factcheck.org went through the obama campaign ads and their ads and factchecked what was being said. and the bottom line is the mccain advisors, a fellow named holtz-eakin, and in a conference call with reporters after the ad was released what he said was, no service is being reduced. every beneficiary will in the future receive exactly the benefits that they have been promised from the beginning. well, that's the same thing as we're having. no benefit is bein