The Senator--and I apologize to my colleagues because we are no longer debating this amendment, which is about restoring $50 billion in Republican cuts to Medicare. That is what will be, hopefully, voted up later. But when the Senator said, ``I ran a company, and I decided what my employees were going to get. I made the decision''----
Jay Rockefeller: “The Senator--and I apologize to my colleagues because we are no longer debating this amendment, which is about restoring…”
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Discussing an amendment related to Medicare funding during Senate debate.
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