Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. (Purpose: To require the Secretary of the Army to use certain funds for the construction of…

Yes. I renew my unanimous-consent request. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection?

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the reading of the amendment be dispensed with. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To defer payments of principal and interest on…

That is absolutely my intention. That is what this bill would do. Several Senators on the other side correctly pointed out that we should not depend on the goodwill of BP. So let's not depend on the goodwill of BP. Let's fix it here. Let's…

Madam President, I am overjoyed that I have been let into this discussion considering that heavy oil is now getting into Louisiana marshland and is impacting my State and the State of Senator Landrieu more than any other in the country. It…

Madam President, reclaiming my time, I am obviously disappointed. I think we are seeing that maybe there is a difference when your State is in the nexus of this and your State is under attack from this oil. I want to fix a problem, not…

So there were a number of promises made and, you know, each time we tried to rebut these, we were told that we were using scare tactics, that we are scaring old people and that, really, it was unconscionable to do that. So what has…

I thank the gentleman, Dr. Broun from Georgia. And I still see patients as well when I get a chance, but it's not nearly as often as I'd like. We, being both family physicians, I think we have a special bond. I want to thank the gentleman…

I thank the gentleman. What I would like to do is take a moment to look through the retro spectroscope, where we are today now that the bill has passed, look at the rhetoric that occurred during the debate--

Right. Well it's a quasi-medical term which is equivalent to armchair quarterbacking or postmortem in which we look back and we go, How do things look now, looking back, as opposed to the way they looked then? You know, what we were saying…

Yes, what's happening is the employers, now that they are getting the language of the bill--remember that Speaker Pelosi said if we want to find out what's in it, we have got to pass it first, okay? Well, now it's passed. So, now, business…

If you would yield for just a comment about employers. I'm a small business owner, and you, as a medical physician and one who has to run a business, in essence, for health care, I think a lot of people out there may feel safe in the fact…

A football player, okay. Now, according to the quality- adjusted life years, the 35-year-old has not only more years left to live, but he has more productive years, that is, he's going to work for the state more years. In fact, the…

Right. This is his quote. He considers the British health system ``a global treasure.'' In fact, it's my understanding--I don't have it in my data right here--it's my understanding that he helped design it. And it's designed very simply…

Well, what it basically means is that there's going to be a bunch of unelected bureaucrats, perhaps not even doctors, who are going to be tasked with looking at research, hopefully there's going to be research or they are going to do…

Yes. So you have costs going up and you have jobs going down. We know that there's supposed to be 32 million more Americans covered under this than otherwise. Half of those are to be estimated to be going into Medicaid. And doctors across…

Additional tax from the actuary who is saying it's going to be more taxes. Job cuts: 90 percent of medical device makers say that they will eliminate jobs. That's 9 out of 10 companies that make anything from tongue blades to pacemakers…

But it goes further than that. There's going to be $120 billion in taxes that were not anticipated. That's on top of the $600 billion that were already----