reverberating back and forth. >> 79 senators vote in favor of repealing the medical device tax. do you know how hard it is to get 79 senators to agree on the climate, on the time of day? and they vote on this on a nonbinding resolution. they agree on this. and yet nothing happens. what kind of parallel universe is that? >> grover, i saw you kind of smiling while carl was talking. how do you see this resolving? >> well, there are a number of things. the issue that was just brought up, medical devices. a majority of the democrats in the senate have voted saying -- telling their constituents that they want to get rid of that. when it came up for a vote, the republicans sent it over. reid said you have to vote against it. poor mary landrieu and baggitch from alaska who try to be moderates in their states were forced to vote the way reid told them. to the democrats are put in a very awkward position going into