John B. Breaux: “All we were asking for was the right to be treated as the other Class I's had been treated under the previous rules.”

I think it's hers to lose. I think it's the consensus among Democrats that I've talked to that she's clearly in the lead, is clearly the person that they have to beat.

Just like my Chevy II, things have changed, things have improved, so our recommendation is that we keep Medicare of course.

I remember when I was in Congress when I wanted to stop something from happening, I used to offer an amendment to do a study, or maybe to do a demonstration program, hoping it never got completed.

Let me suggest it is a program that is more popular today than the Congress that wrote it.