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On the recordMarch 2, 2010
I am very sure that they would be willing to accept their own bill back and paid for. He mentioned the fact that I objected four times. I objected more than four, but the majority leader objected four times to my request. That was nowhere in his statement. And talking about Medicare Part D premiums and the cost of Medicare Part D, the majority party in this Senate has had 3 years to repeal Medicare Part D if it was a bad idea at the time we passed it. Certainly, with 60 full votes in the Senate, it could have repealed what they considered a bad bill. The fact it was not paid for was not to my liking. The fact that we were going to take care of Medicare senior citizens who couldn't afford their prescription drugs took precedence. It is amazing to me the number of misstatements, and how the Governor--a Democratic Governor of the Commonwealth--could bring all these facts out to the Senator from Illinois and not the Senator from Kentucky.
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Jim Bunning

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The speaker addresses objections to Medicare Part D and the Senate's response to its costs.

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